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Examples of islet in a Sentence
landed the boat on a tiny islet that we had all to ourselves
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Earlier Thursday, the typhoon’s eye blew about 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of the northernmost Philippine province of Batanes, a cluster of islands and islets of about 19,000 people.
—Associated Press, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
In December of that year, the republican government fled to Taiwan and in the following years and months would lose a string of other islands and islets to communist forces.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
As a result Provo and its neighboring islets are growing, with new districts of multi-million-dollar for-sale villas, splashy rentals and new five-star guest rooms.
—Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
While the book is fiction, it’s drawn from Jansson’s many summers spent on the rocky, outer-archipelago islet of Klovharu with her niece, in a modest cottage the author built with her brother in 1964.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Islet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islet. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
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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