How to Use peninsula in a Sentence

peninsula

noun

• They built their house on a narrow peninsula.
• The latest eruption is the fifth on the peninsula since 2021.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• This eruption is the eighth on the peninsula since 2021.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
• The caves are about a 1-mile paddle from Meyers Beach on the west side of the peninsula.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2022
• The history of the peninsula could be written in fins and scales.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• One trench is being dug on the peninsula’s east coast near a border gate to the DMZ.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Oct. 2024
• Amble along Main Street and the Bearskin Neck peninsula and soak up the artsy vibes.
  — Amy Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2024
• An opening between the peninsula on the right and more counter space on the left — both topped with granite — leads to the work area.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its coastline and reclaim land from the sea.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• But the old donkey paths that were once the only routes across the peninsula now serve as a network of walking trails.
  — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
• Eight to 16 inches of snow is likely, reaching 2 feet in some parts of the peninsula.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2022
• Surge will also be possible along the rest of the Florida peninsula -- both on the east side and the west side.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 9 Nov. 2022
• There is a spot on the southern side of the peninsula that is empty and natural and peaceful.
  — Kim Gooden, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• And Caltrain, the peninsula commuter line, doesn’t stop at the airport.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• Las Palmas sat on a peninsula, set off from the rest of the island by barren mountains.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The film, which will be released Nov. 22, is set in the Iberian peninsula and tells the story of the magical Kingdom of Rosas.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The canal was the main source of water for Crimea until Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014 and Ukraine then hastily built a dam to block the canal’s flow.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• Towns to Visit Sirmione A small peninsula jutting into the lake, Sirmione is known as one of the lake’s most charming towns.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
• The Cape Fear peninsula juts out a bit into the Atlantic, so the water there is at its clearest and cleanest.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
• Provide seating near the cooking area, such as barstools at a peninsula, so guests can relax and chat with the chef before the meal.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2023
• The duo created an entry by placing a half-wall across from the peninsula.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• Since then the 12-mile structure that runs across the Kerch Strait has provided an essential link to the peninsula.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2022
• The attack took place a week after a blast damaged a bridge in Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2022
• The number of native birds on the peninsula has soared since the predator free campaign began.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• Russia had leased bases in that area from Ukraine for two decades, only for Putin to invade the entire peninsula in 2014.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
• Enter the peninsula’s photogenic beaches, all just a hop and a skip from town.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the fate of the peninsula, home to 2.4 million people, is increasingly part of the wartime discourse.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• The kitchen opens up to the living room with a long peninsula to create cohesion between the two spaces.
  — Chron, 5 Feb. 2023
• Control of the peninsula allows Russia to project force deeper into the Black Sea, guard routes to the ports there and protect its forces in Crimea.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Bom Bom began life in the 1980s as a collection of bungalows for marlin fishers, built at the tip of a peninsula between golden sand beaches in the Gulf of Guinea.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024