How to Use atoll in a Sentence

atoll

noun

• Ambitious coral restoration efforts are underway across the atolls of the Maldives — with the help of some hands-on guests.
  — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024
• The Laura side of the atoll twists up like a wry smile.
  — Jamie Zvirzdin, The New Republic, 1 Jan. 2021
• The next day, the team flew over the atoll, and saw something written on the sand.
  — Irene Wright, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Now is your chance to bid for a coral atoll ecosystem in one of the most pristine parts of the world.
  — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• My mom told me this was called an atoll, a kind of island made of coral.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• And that bomb was the bikini, named after the famous atoll.
  — Manon Garrigues, Vogue, 18 June 2024
• Some of the atolls and islands have just a few hundred people on them.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 17 July 2019
• There is one airport, one bank, one hospital and one road that spans the length of the atoll.
  — Alexander Lee, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• The string of islands and tiny atolls was the site of more than 65 nuclear tests during the Cold War.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• The plan was to draw the American air carriers to the atoll and ambush them.
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 28 May 2017
• Research took place on Roi-Namur island, which is part of the atoll.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2018
• The Bikinians expected to return to their atoll in a few months.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• When the southeastern trade winds blow, our atoll is in order.
  — Celeste Brash, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• The three-person crew aboard a 23-foot skiff set out from Pulawat atoll on Thursday.
  — Fox News, 4 Aug. 2020
• And Aldabra, one of the world’s largest coral atolls, is quite inhospitable to visitors.
  — Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The celebration on the atoll in late August seemed safe.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• As the war churned on, the small atoll became a major U.S. air base, and some field cemeteries were paved over.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• The airstrip, which divided the island into north and south, was the main objective of the assault on the atoll.
  — Natasha Frost Maud Bodoukian Meyrant, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• The entire south side of the atoll appeared to be wiped clean by Walaka, according to Buehler.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2019
• York was part of a Navy force occupying Betio, the main island in the atoll.
  — al, 2 Aug. 2021
• Small atolls and seamounts northwest of the Main Hawaiian Islands are also believed to have been formed by the hot spot.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fox News, 31 May 2018
• Dives along the outer reef of the 15-mile atoll revealed the seaweed in varying densities and depths.
  — Author: Caleb Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2020
• Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean.
  — Keiran Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Hithi is an island in the North Malé atoll, a 40-minute speedboat ride from the Maldives’ main airport in the capital city of Malé.
  — Johanna Read, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• When seas rise, corals build themselves up in a ring around that depression, forming an atoll.
  — Alexandra Witze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
• Henry Andregg Jr., who was killed on the first day of fighting at Tarawa atoll in November 1943.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 29 May 2017
• But a mere 14 years ago, on a tiny Pacific atoll in the Marshall Islands, the upstart outfit was just trying to get off the ground.
  — Bill Ingalls, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
• But the very first atoll, Midway Atoll, is almost 28 million years old, and there's a future island forming to the south of the Big Island.
  — Elizabeth Chang, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• The atoll is particularly known for its healthy coral reefs and abundant fish species.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024