island
Example Sentences
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And in 2019, at least 35 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on the western island of Sumatra.
From Barron's
On the island, Laczko waited as mechanics tried to fix the plane’s auxiliary power unit that sits in the tail of the plane.
The Jersey Living Wage has never been as important as it is now for so many people with poverty unfortunately still increasing and a continued rise in food bank usage in our island.
From BBC
A quarter of the population has fled during the island’s most prolonged economic crisis.
Residents of island territory Turks and Caicos later reported finding scraps of burned rubber and destroyed heat tiles that had washed ashore.
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