islands
Example Sentences
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Pathway Home, Los Angeles County’s encampment removal program, has conducted 10 operations in the two cities and their immediate unincorporated islands, bringing a total of 303 people off the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The number of Chinese ships detected around Taiwan and several of its outer islands since May is 1,247, coast guard figures show.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
"While large, tabular icebergs are relatively common in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Arctic ice islands are far rarer," explains Dr. Anna Crawford of the University of Stirling.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the islands depended first on sugar plantations and then the pineapple industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
They slid past islands where the two of them had spent magical times, and they smiled together.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
