Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
islands
IPA transcription: ['aɪləndz]
Pronunciations of islands
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Usage examples
Of all the islands in the eastern seas, none are more interesting than our own Philippines.
Then he rose forthright and wrote letters and despatched them to all the islands of the sea.
I suppose, in Alaska and in the South Sea Islands, all the medicine men were similarly upon trial.
Closer and closer we came, one of us drifting helplessly, and the other swimming strongly for the islands.
They were to be found everywhere through Europe, even as far as Iceland and the Faroe and Shetland Islands.
The story of how these islands came into our possession is still fresh and vivid in the memory of thousands.
During the morning the raft passed by the picturesque group of islands situated in the vast estuary of the Javary.
It is that you put us ashore on one of the islands of this pestilent archipelago, and leave us to shift for ourselves."
These islanders were Carians and Phoenicians, by whom most of the islands were colonized, as was proved by the following fact.
Little by little, vegetation spread. Tiny animals--worms, insects--rode ashore on tree trunks snatched from islands to windward.
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Baie-Johan-Beetz, Quebec
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USS Missouri (BB-63)
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Northern pintail
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