How to Use islet in a Sentence

islet

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  • The archipelago is made up of more than 180 islands and islets, creating a nearly endless amount of shoreline.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
  • This stretch of the Mekong was filled with small islets and rocks.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Malaysia and Brunei are the other claimants to the chain of islands and barren islets and atolls.
    — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Or wash up with the longer-dead, now in blackening piles along the islet in the middle of the creek.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The walls of the chamber protect the islet cells from the body’s immune system.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Mr Yu says some should be sent to the islet on a trial basis.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The view of the main island of Mauritius from the islet of Ile aux Aigrettes.
    — Nayanah Siva, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
  • His goal was to turn them into islet cells to treat patients.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The cabin-like rooms connect by a bridge to a tiny islet that’s home to the resort’s restaurant and bar.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The islets are renowned for their crystal clear waters that draw snorkelers and divers from all over the world.
    — Todd Pitman, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Each July, the idyllic Cycladic islet of Mykonos goes to war.
    — Christopher Cameron, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
  • Lush and strange, Treichel’s islet is a vision of some sort of paradise.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The islet was originally 0.62 miles and is now half its size.
    — Naomi Ludlow, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
  • But a project that includes 3D scans of all 124 islands and islets is now complete.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The atoll is a mere speck on the map, and the farm is isolated on its own islet, away from the 250 or so other people who live on Ahe.
    — Celeste Brash, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The captain cuts the motor and the Alucia gently drifts toward the southern-most islet.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Toward the park side of the lake sits an islet, known as Bird Island, that’s favored by nesting egrets and wood storks.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • As with Scarborough Shoal, China has seized and built on a number of reefs and islets.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The cliffs of Vaches Noires are a backdrop, and there is a sanctuary on an islet here, so the skies fill with birds, each with their own songs.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • China calls 90% of the sea its own and has landfilled a handful of islets for military use.
    — Ralph Jennings, latimes.com, 8 July 2018
  • On at least one of the islets, there were fake seagulls arrayed around the cylindrical object.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
  • The slurry mix was then spun down through a centrifuge to get a concentrated islet of stem cells.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Roni Selig, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This aerial photo shows Ejit, an islet in the Marshall Islands, in 2015.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The scientists compared the age of neurons in the brain with that of cells in the liver and pancreatic islets.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • Tim, our captain and a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, guides us around rocky islets and punches through big ocean swells.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Scott King, who ran a competing islet-cell startup, said.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Sunshine sometimes could be seen in the gaps and channels between the countless islands and islets of compact cloud, strewn across the sky.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The two-and-a-half-square-mile-long island is a necklace of coral islets encircling a crystal-clear lagoon.
    — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 22 May 2017
  • The smallest piece, on an islet in Leverett Pond, will use 260 nozzles, according to Mergel.
    — Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018
  • Tetiaroa is an atoll made up of several small islets, with only a tight range of plant and animal life present.
    — Andrew Howley, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2016

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