10 sentences with 'island'
Example sentences and phrases with the word island and other words derived from it.
• « The inhabitants of the island, terrified, thought that the end of the world had come, and fled to the regions that had not been affected by the eruption, as well as to neighboring islands. »
• « But the island has its charm, and visitors can appreciate it if they let themselves be carried away by the spectacle of nature. »
• « This beast, whose only natural habitat is on the island of Tasmania, 240 kilometres south of Australia, has earned one of the worst reputations in the animal kingdom. »
• « At his school in Cos - a small island near Asia Minor - he taught how to use this fluid (water) in different ways to cure, taking into account the characteristics of the ailments. »
• « The famous authors of Return of the Warlocks and The Warlock Rebellion, Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, claim that Atlantis was not a lost continent but an island, Thera, a Cretan colony in the Mediterranean, destroyed by the explosion of the Santorin volcano some 3,000 years before Christ, and all the technological and mystical paraphernalia attributed to it is nothing more than a myth sustained by mystery and its abrupt disappearance. »
• « Ukrainian scientist Catalina Hagemeister is convinced of the existence of a large island in the Atlantic, which would be submerged today, and has an almost irrefutable theory about it. »
• « The alleged Atlantic island, being in the path of the Gulf Stream, prevented the warm Gulf Stream from reaching the Arctic and would have been the cause of a glacial period. »
• « Other conceptions of death come from New Guinea: there is an island of the dead from which the ancestors arrived in the form of twin sisters: the Morning Star and the Evening Star. It is said that they were gigantic, and their descendants - normal ones - returned to the original island when they died. »
• « To the west, it was during the Bronze Age that the first distinctly Greek civilisations emerged: the Minoans on the island of Crete and the Mycenaeans in Greece itself. »