How to Use barrier island in a Sentence

barrier island

noun

• Offshore reefs and barrier islands would frame a lagoon and protect it as well as the island from the lake’s pounding.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Port Aransas, a beach town on a barrier island near the middle of the Texas coast, is almost entirely dependent on tourism.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2018
• Why this is such an intensely personal issue here has a lot to do with the fact that the state is home to two national seashores and more than 300 miles of barrier island beaches.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 6 Apr. 2018
• The barrier islands will be closed to all travel except for evacuations and debris pickup from 7 p.m. tonight and there are six emergency shelters across the county.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• The boulevard, also known as A1A, is fed from the south by Southeast 17th Street and travels along the barrier island and the beach.
  — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 May 2018
• The year was 1896, and the tiny barrier island had taken a direct hit.
  — Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2023
• But barrier islands also flank much of the lower part of the state.
  — Ben Finley, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• The city bought two billboards to blast out the message to drivers coming in and out of the barrier island.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• The rising ocean swamped the barrier island of Grand Isle as landfall came just to the west at Port Fourchon.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021
• Nearby, the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne is set on the coast of the five-mile barrier island.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2021
• On this barrier island, fresh seafood is always on the menu.
  — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• And then there's the Cocoon House, which was designed by the same team on a lagoon on the barrier island Siesta Key.
  — Bob Morris, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2021
• The break happened at about 6 p.m. Tuesday as a crew was working on the barrier island.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Friday’s winds and rains broke apart the barrier island’s main pier, one of several in the state to crumble and wash away.
  — Steve Helber, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• The resort, currently closed for the summer, is on the wealthy barrier island of Palm Beach.
  — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• One death was blamed on the flooding, on the barrier island of Pellestrina.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Its grounds have been preserved to maintain its native barrier island ecosystem, one of the last in the state.
  — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
• From the pier, visitors can see waves rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean onto the barrier island.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• The eye of the storm made landfall in Siesta Key, a barrier island off Sarasota about 60 miles south of the Tampa.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
• So what else makes this thin barrier island, part of the Outer Banks, such a good investment?
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2023
• The barrier island is a launching point for deep-sea fishing in the gulf, where more than 280 species hang out, but bring your surf-cast gear to haul in redfish straight from the beach.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 12 July 2021
• The first zone is the barrier island, east of the Intracoastal Waterway.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Head 40 minutes out of town to the barrier island Dauphin, at the head of the estuary, which is full of small cottages and cozy restaurants, and has some of the area’s finest beaches.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2020
• Less than 10 miles away, crews were finishing the search for bodies on a coastal barrier island.
  — Jay Reeves, ajc, 9 Oct. 2022
• The gateway to the ocean lies on the shores of Assateague Island, the secluded 37-mile barrier island that runs down the Maryland coastline.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2020
• The storm’s center would move on shore just after 3 p.m. on the Lee County barrier island of Cayo Costa.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• The placid nearby barrier islands are called the Golden Isles, while the poverty rate in the city of Brunswick is nearly 38 percent.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 10 May 2020
• South Padre Island is a 113-mile-long barrier island, off the southern tip of Texas, known for its resorts and beaches.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 5 July 2024
• Whooping cranes winter in Texas on a chain of barrier islands.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• Gualtieri said the sheriff's office will continue to have dozens of extra deputies patrolling the barrier islands day and night to keep people who don’t belong there off the islands.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024