Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Baie-Johan-Beetz, Quebec, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording USS Missouri (BB-63), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Northern pintail, License CC BY-SA 4.0