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How to use isle in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Isle means an island, usually very small. Compare with islet. Example: “I usually stay away from the ice cream isle but bought this as a " treat" 🤢.”

More sentences with isle

  • I usually stay away from the ice cream isle but bought this as a " treat" 🤢.2024 March 4, [deleted user], “Cheapflation- Turkey Hill frozen dairy dessert”, in r/shrinkflation. From the entry cheapflation
  • Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2. From the entry desceptre
  • "From a country called Wales, part of the isle my master calls Gramarye.1999, T[homas] A[rchibald] Barron, “Great Power”, in The Mirror of Merlin (The Lost Years of Merlin; book 4), New York, N.Y.: Philomel…. From the entry gramarye
  • Isle of Sark is the first cross-channel steamer to have a Maierform hull.1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 342. From the entry Maierform
  • Furthermore, adding to the many linguistic identities of the Caribbean isles, the British isles have likewise a composite stratification in phytonymy.2008, Renato Tomei, Forbidden Fruits: The Secret Names of Plants in Caribbean Culture, →ISBN. From the entry phytonymy
  • Japanese authorities questioned the seven Chinese activists after detaining them for their allegedly illegal visit to the isle of Uotsuri.2004 March 26, Kenji Hall, “Japan Deports Seven Chinese Activists”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 May 2023. From the entry Uotsuri
  • Let's just say that people on both sides of the Mackie isle get a little thick headed and close-eared at times.2001 November 14, Gabe Nahshon, “Mackie 1402VLZ”, in alt.audio.pro.live-sound (Usenet). From the entry close-eared
  • Like Prospero’s isle, the C-5 is full of noises.1997 July 31, Ed Hailwood, “The Big Red One”, in The Financial Post, Toronto, Ont., page 53, column 2. From the entry vimful
  • It is Homer’s “asphodelos leimon,” the daffodilly mead or meadow, descriptive of Elysium, the Hesperides or western isles of departed shades.1992, A[lexander] B. Chambers, “[Robert] Herrick and the Ceremonies of Art”, in Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry…. From the entry daffodilly
  • England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I. From the entry England
  • This is the ultimate island – or so say dedicated island-ophiles, who spend their two-weeks-a-year paid vacation searching for the ultimate isle.1985 December 1, Judy Wiliamson, “Bora Bora: ‘This is the ultimate island’”, in La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wis., page 53, column 2. From the entry islandophile
  • This book charts the wilderness as contained in the notebooks: the dæmons and kakodæmons, the symbols of boat, isle, eye, star, veil, cave, and dream.1957, The Humanist, volumes 72–74, page 25, column 3. From the entry kakodæmon
  • “I live on the isle of my dreams, and it's prettysome,” Beryl says, weaving her fingers together, pushing them away from her small breasts with a crack.2014, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Love and Ordinary Creatures. From the entry prettysome
  • The Taiwanese army will use various cannons to shoot at the sea between Nankan and Tungchu, two isles of the Matsu island group, the report said.1996 April 1 [1996 March 31], “Taiwan: Defense Minister Announces Live-Fire Drills on Matsu”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 96-063…. From the entry Tungchu
  • Mark, owner of Tavern on Green restaurant in Philadelphia – has a clever and economically rewarding scheme he uses each year when he visits a Caribbean isle.1985 August 11, Gloria Hayes Kremer, “Guidelines Help Vacationers Choose a Place in the Sun”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 52, number…. From the entry islandophile
  • The Pescadores or Hoko islands, lying between Formosa (Taiwan) and the Chinese coast, are described by Koto (Notes on the Geology of the dependent isles of Taiwan, Journ.1900 June 1, W. M. Davis, “Current Notes on Physiography.”, in Science, volume XI, number 283, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 871, column 2. From the entry Taiwan
  • Floyd Waggaman, the namesake of “Floyd’s Folly,” summered and autumned at Siasconset, which your columnist has been told is hard by Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or one of the disenchanted isles.1938 November 18, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXXIX, number 8, page 180. From the entry autumn
  • The narrow seas around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean, are subject to the turbulent sway of the West Wind.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry watch and ward

Meaning of isle

  1. noun An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

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Questions about isle in a sentence

How do you use isle in a sentence?
Isle is used as a noun. For example: “I usually stay away from the ice cream isle but bought this as a " treat" 🤢.”
What is a short sentence with isle?
“Like Prospero’s isle, the C-5 is full of noises.”
What does isle mean?
Isle means an island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: isle (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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