island
Example Sentences
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Air Canada AC -4.30%decrease; red down pointing triangle is suspending service to Cuba due to a shortage of aviation fuel on the island.
The only airport on the island of St Helena, a remote British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean, has been closed over fire safety concerns.
From BBC
Air Canada said in a statement that "aviation fuel will not be commercially available at the island's airports" as of Tuesday.
From Barron's
The island of 9.6 million inhabitants, under a US trade embargo since 1962, has for years been mired in a severe economic crisis marked by extended power cuts and shortages of fuel, medicine and food.
From Barron's
If Mom had to break a bone, why couldn’t it have happened at home, instead of out on this island, miles from medical help?
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
