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Example sentences for: mainland

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The island lies 3 km (2 miles) offshore, and its beaches are even more secluded than those on the “mainland.”
In 1860, a treaty gave Britain a permanent beach-head on the Chinese mainland — the Kowloon peninsula, directly across Victoria harbor.
The paper reported that more than 70 Falun Gong leaders were arrested in China this week, including Ji Liewu, a mainland businessman in his 40s who was responsible for bringing the sect to Hong Kong.
So does the former name for the colony, Van Diemen's Land (so named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman), or its facetious variant, Vandemonia (former Tasmanian convicts being known on the mainland as Vandemonians).
You can drive there across the single-lane causeway linking the long, strip of dunes with the mainland (no buses or motor homes allowed), or in the summer catch a ferry from the pier by the old town.