How to Use barrier island in a Sentence

barrier island

noun

• Oil begins to come ashore on some Louisiana barrier islands.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2020
• At checkpoints staffed round-the-clock, sheriff's deputies at the barrier islands' entry points turn back anyone lacking proof of residency or essential business there.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The year was 1896, and the tiny barrier island had taken a direct hit.
  — Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many of the condo buildings along the barrier island east of the city of Miami are some of the largest structures in the area and dozens are due for the required 40-year inspection.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 14 July 2021
• This Gulf Coast barrier island is one of the best Houston day trips in part because it's located only 50 miles east of the city.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 8 Feb. 2022
• The barrier islands are landforms that developed from the buildup of tidal sand deposits.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• There are no food banks or pantries in this largely Iñupiat village on a barrier island along the Chukchi Sea.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
• Topping the list, Casey Key Road is nestled on a barrier island just south of Sarasota.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2024
• Peek at a map of the Florida Gulf Coast and look for a long, narrow barrier island running roughly north-south off the mainland.
  — Jp Shaffer, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• The 18-mile-long barrier island bracketed by Lake Worth and the ocean was essentially a swamp.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022
• The site was fenced off by a green mesh perimeter that extended block after block, disabling a section of the barrier island.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The group was formed by a group of Dauphin Island locals who wanted the barrier island to have another Mardi Gras krewe.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2023
• There’s also the Brunswick Islands, a collection of barrier islands, tiny towns, and wide, sandy beaches that feel hours away from any major city.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024