Example sentences for: vieques

How can you use “vieques” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This is the jumping-off point for dives around Vieques and Culebra and other smaller islands off Puerto Rico’s east coast.

  • Culebra, much smaller at 21 sq miles (34 sq km), is north of Vieques.

  • The NYT off-leads with Clinton's order to stop the use of live-fire ammunition in military-training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, dubbed the "crown jewel of live-fire, combined-arms training," by the U.S. chief of naval operations in the WP , which stuffs the story.

  • Vieques (pronounced be-ay-kase) is the largest of the two, though its name, from the Amerindian, means “small island.”

  • The islands of Vieques and Culebra, off of Puerto Rico’s east coast, are a part of, yet in many ways totally separate from, the main island.


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