Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: inland
IPA transcription: ['ɪnl,ænd]
Pronunciations of inland
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inland
    Meaning: situated away from an area's coast or border
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inland
    Meaning: towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland"
Usage examples
  • No wonder the two Scotsmen named the new inland empire New Caledonia--after their native land.
  • Its shores seemed covered with greenery from its beaches to its summits inland, crowned by Mt. Kapogo, which is 476 fathoms high.
  • Cut off from them he languished as a lover of the sea can droop inland, or a mountaineer may pine in the flat monotony of the plains.
  • It was from this inland lake of asphalt that the material was procured to protect the New York subway tunnels from moisture, so it is said.
  • Once I remember the persistent barking of a dog from somewhere inland of me, and several times I took out and examined my revolver very carefully.
  • Then he waved his arms again as a signal, and they saw the people flying inland, driving their flocks before them, while a great flame arose among the hills.
  • And as they went inland, Circe met them, coming down toward the ship; and they trembled when they saw her; for her hair, and face, and robes, shone like flame.
  • A retired sea captain hides inland, with no companions but a grinning sailor and his blind housekeeper --except his pale wife, of course; and she is described as sad and unhappy.
  • These lakes, however, are comparatively insignificant as compared with the great inland seas like Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, that undoubtedly owe their origin largely to the ice age.
  • These smaller inland lakes, so many of which are seen in northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and Minnesota, are due almost entirely to the great deposits of glacial drift that have been transported with the ice.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, License CC BY-SA 4.0