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How to use island in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Island means a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. Example: “The quiet library was an island of tranquility in the noisy, bustling city.”

Examples of island by meaning

nounA contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.

  • Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.2002, Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide

nounA contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.

  • Despite its name, Barry Island is actually a peninsula

nounAn entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.

  • The quiet library was an island of tranquility in the noisy, bustling city.
  • an island of colors on a butterfly's wing
  • He was an island of composure, floating in his 39th goal of the season with a delicate chip into the corner.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)

nounA traffic island.

  • the island in the middle of a roundabout

nounA roundabout; a traffic circle.

  • Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.
  • In Coventry, you will often hear people say: “Turn right at the island”.

nounA bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.

  • A short, rather studious young woman on noticing him moved from behind an island counter.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 216

verbTo surround with water; make into an island.

  • We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry, volume 42
  • The car soon seemed islanded in water.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 138

verbTo set, dot (as if) with islands.

  • the many-islanded Aegean
  • She knew that the town was islanded with many waters - the Hudson, the Harlem and the East rivers, and the Bay - but the rivers were hard to find in the universal velvetiness.1930, Rupert Hughes, Ladies’ Man, page 143

More sentences with island

  • He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.From the entry abandon
  • The island was a mile about, and a third of a mile across.From the entry about
  • I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.From the entry animal
  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.From the entry bear
  • The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.From the entry live
  • The captain named it Pearl Rock after the rising sun illuminated the surface of the island.From the entry rock
  • The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.From the entry behind
  • I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.From the entry starve
  • After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.From the entry nuts
  • Singapore is the world's most populous city state and the only island city-state in the world.From the entry city state
  • The overexploitation of forests left the island nearly denuded of trees.From the entry overexploitation
  • The de jure capital city of Indonesia is Nusantara, located in the eastern coast of Kalimantan island.From the entry Nusantara
  • After being shipwrecked on the island, we were in dire straits.From the entry dire straits
  • The Scoto-Norse originated in Viking colonies established in Scotland and its surrounding islands.From the entry scoto-
  • The island was directly abeam of us.From the entry abeam
  • The indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico was 'Borikén', which literally means "Homeland of the People".From the entry Puerto Rico
  • We can cross to the island when the tide is out, but it won't move out until around five o'clock.From the entry tide
  • The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.From the entry sanction
  • If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.From the entry hit
  • They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.From the entry desert
  • It's three miles out to the island.From the entry out
  • You can walk to the island when the tide's out.From the entry out
  • The island is 23 miles off the cape.From the entry off
  • There was a derelict ship on the island.From the entry derelict
  • The exclusive tropical island was a millionaire's playground.From the entry playground
  • I felt the warm water, my makas looked into the sky. Thank you for my love of my islands.From the entry maka
  • Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.From the entry extinct

Meaning of island

  1. noun A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
  2. noun A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
  3. noun An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.

Full definition of island

Questions about island in a sentence

How do you use island in a sentence?
Island is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The quiet library was an island of tranquility in the noisy, bustling city.”
What is a short sentence with island?
“the many-islanded Aegean”
What does island mean?
Island means a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: island (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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