island

Example Sentences

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After the meeting, Denmark vowed to send armed forces to the island.

From BBC

The Arctic island’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Tuesday, “If we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark.”

From Barron's

The U.S. in Greenland would surely stoke hopes for more mining activity on the island, too.

From Barron's

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's

The focus of the talks: the future of the world's biggest island, Greenland.

From BBC