island
Example Sentences
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"We really need to be that island of stability."
From Barron's
A rapid-response unit of roughly 2,200 Marines is also on its way to the Middle East, where they could play a role in reopening the strait by seizing the islands off Iran’s southern coast.
Ever since Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government retreated to the island in 1949, after Mao Zedong’s Communist forces won the Chinese Civil War, Beijing has claimed the island as its own territory.
Greenland's leader and Denmark have repeatedly rejected his demands to acquire the island.
From BBC
On Monday Raúl Castro’s great nephew Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, Cuba’s deputy prime minister, announced that Cubans living abroad would be permitted to invest and become owners of businesses on the island.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
