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How to use islander in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Islander means a person who lives on an island. Example: “Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.”

Examples of islander by meaning

nounA person who lives on an island.

  • Susan happily introducing speaker Steve Smith, Channel Eleven’s newzanchor, ya’know, and an islandophile from wayyy back – and as of this writing, a newly retired islander and fisherman.1999 June 6, Frances Powell, “A galapalooza for McClown House”, in The Daily News, number 57, Galveston, Tex., page C1, column 1
  • The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian

More sentences with islander

  • Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.From the entry ferry
  • Pizza Nights attract islanders and summerers for fresh-from-the-oven pizza, live music, and community.2014, Maria Olia, Day Trips New England, page 100. From the entry summerer
  • Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it.2011 July 1, Stephen Phelan, The Guardian. From the entry thoroughfare
  • Matiu had 44 years to go as sea donkey for the quarantine station and its islanders.2001, David McGill, Island of Secrets: Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, page 131. From the entry sea donkey
  • The creatures lay with the humans, dead islanders alongside them.2015, China Miéville, “In the Slopes”, in Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, London: Picador, →ISBN, pages 64–65. From the entry corona
  • Manam islanders knew Mambu: but they could not admit to being led or influenced by a mere bush-Kanaka.2004, K. O. L. Burridge, Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium. From the entry bus kanaka
  • But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.1995, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman, “Global Complexity and Everyday Life”, in Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the…. From the entry villagehood
  • Vestmann islanders, while clustered, were immured by nothing but the sea, and they came and went through their famous harbor.1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, →ISBN, pages 118–119. From the entry immured
  • It was left to the famed Greek philosopher, Plato, writing some two hundred years later, to bring out the torrid details of these kinky islanders.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry torrid
  • But apologising for running a slave trade that tore tens of thousands of Pacific islanders from their families should not be a hard sell in Australia’s parliament.2024, Graeme Smith, “The Frontiers of History: China Discovers The Pacific’s Dark Colonial Legacy”, in Annie Luman Ren and Ben Hillman…. From the entry blackbirder
  • The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61. From the entry taiko
  • The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).1916, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, volume 1, page 57. From the entry kylie

Meaning of islander

  1. noun A person who lives on an island.

Full definition of islander

Questions about islander in a sentence

How do you use islander in a sentence?
Islander is used as a noun. For example: “Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.”
What is a short sentence with islander?
“The creatures lay with the humans, dead islanders alongside them.”
What does islander mean?
Islander means a person who lives on an island.

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