How to Use islet in a Sentence

islet

noun

• Zinc in pancreatic cells (islet cells) helps produce insulin and is necessary for its release.
  — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
• This stretch of the Mekong was filled with small islets and rocks.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• The cottage was the home of the lighthouse keeper, built on the side of a rocky islet in 1857.
  — Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 10 Aug. 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
• Or wash up with the longer-dead, now in blackening piles along the islet in the middle of the creek.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• The walls of the chamber protect the islet cells from the body’s immune system.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Mr Yu says some should be sent to the islet on a trial basis.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• The view of the main island of Mauritius from the islet of Ile aux Aigrettes.
  — Nayanah Siva, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
• His goal was to turn them into islet cells to treat patients.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• The cabin-like rooms connect by a bridge to a tiny islet that’s home to the resort’s restaurant and bar.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2022
• The islets are renowned for their crystal clear waters that draw snorkelers and divers from all over the world.
  — Todd Pitman, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
• Each July, the idyllic Cycladic islet of Mykonos goes to war.
  — Christopher Cameron, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• Lush and strange, Treichel’s islet is a vision of some sort of paradise.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• These worthless islets are claimed by both China and Japan.
  — Michael O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
• The islet was originally 0.62 miles and is now half its size.
  — Naomi Ludlow, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
• But a project that includes 3D scans of all 124 islands and islets is now complete.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
• Where the reefs poked up high enough, wind and waves would toss up sand and rubble, forming slender islets.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• The atoll is a mere speck on the map, and the farm is isolated on its own islet, away from the 250 or so other people who live on Ahe.
  — Celeste Brash, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• The captain cuts the motor and the Alucia gently drifts toward the southern-most islet.
  — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
• Toward the park side of the lake sits an islet, known as Bird Island, that’s favored by nesting egrets and wood storks.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• As with Scarborough Shoal, China has seized and built on a number of reefs and islets.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The cliffs of Vaches Noires are a backdrop, and there is a sanctuary on an islet here, so the skies fill with birds, each with their own songs.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• China calls 90% of the sea its own and has landfilled a handful of islets for military use.
  — Ralph Jennings, latimes.com, 8 July 2018
• On at least one of the islets, there were fake seagulls arrayed around the cylindrical object.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
• The slurry mix was then spun down through a centrifuge to get a concentrated islet of stem cells.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Roni Selig, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
• This aerial photo shows Ejit, an islet in the Marshall Islands, in 2015.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
• The scientists compared the age of neurons in the brain with that of cells in the liver and pancreatic islets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• China has pushed out and militarized a lot of the islands and islets in this region over the last 10 years or so.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 Apr. 2024
• Tim, our captain and a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, guides us around rocky islets and punches through big ocean swells.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Healthy beta cells in the islets of the pancreas produce insulin in response to a rise in blood glucose after eating.
  — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024