Examples of islet in a Sentence
landed the boat on a tiny islet that we had all to ourselves
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After making the roughly 30-mile journey north from Tahiti, Brando found 12 small coral islets, or motus, encircling a tranquil lagoon.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
While Lanikai Beach, with its view of the twin islets Nā Mokulua, has long lured beachgoers, nearby Kailua Beach, which spans 2.5 miles, is almost always less crowded and no less beautiful.
—Catherine Toth Fox, AFAR Media, 11 Dec. 2024
A couple of significant breakthroughs available include islet autotransplantation and artificial pancreas.
—Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2025
The team injected the equivalent of 1.5 million islets into the patient’s abdomen, rather than her liver, where islet transplants are usually injected, per Nature News.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
While Lanikai Beach, with its view of the twin islets Nā Mokulua, has long lured beachgoers, nearby Kailua Beach, which spans 2.5 miles, is almost always less crowded and no less beautiful.
—Catherine Toth Fox, AFAR Media, 11 Dec. 2024
A couple of significant breakthroughs available include islet autotransplantation and artificial pancreas.
—Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2025
The team injected the equivalent of 1.5 million islets into the patient’s abdomen, rather than her liver, where islet transplants are usually injected, per Nature News.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Islet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islet. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət 
1
: a little island
Medical Definition
islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət
: a small isolated mass of one type of tissue within a different type
specifically
: islet of langerhans
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