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isle

[ahyl] / aɪl /
NOUN
atoll
Synonyms
STRONGEST


NOUN
cay
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


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An Irish carpenter acquired the isle in Florida’s Lake Marion in the 1880s and built the main house by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Based in the British-owned isle of Jersey, CoinShares previously traded on Nasdaq Stockholm in Sweden.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Its origins are a mystery, but it was thought to have been made on Iona before being taken to Kells in Ireland by monks who survived a Viking attack on the Hebridean isle.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

The two homes sit on 1.2 acres on the popular vacation isle: a 5,200-square-foot main residence and a two-bedroom guesthouse.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025

So they slept through the night, Odysseus blissfully, on a couch soft and warm as he had not known since he left Calypso’s isle.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The contested isles are part of the volcanic Kuril archipelago, which runs in a broad arc from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula down to Japan's main northern island Hokkaido.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Searching out the echoes of the Celtic foundation, Mr. Robb expresses the current mood of the isles and Western Europe more broadly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

At the very least, it has gorgeous shots of the sun-soaked Greek isles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

The very things people in the isles talk about now.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025

“The isles were last seen just off the coast of Africa, but that was days ago. They could be anywhere in the world by now.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

For three days the heavens descended in a downpour that made the river a roaring torrent and isled the two log houses on their hillocks.

From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner

The aspect of the windows is nearly south, and the prospect includes the plain of the Marchfeld, with the isled Danube and Lobau in the extreme distance.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers...

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

What days could ever be so long As those our pristine Summers poised O'er a charmed valley isled among Their bright slow-breaking tides unnoised?

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley

You are isled from accustomed cares and worries -- you are set in a peculiar nook of rest.

From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame


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