Islets

"Islets" in a Sentence (5 examples)

Mitylene is a beautiful and extensive city of Lesbos intersected by various channels of the sea flowing through and around it, and adorned with bridges of polished white stone. You might imagine on beholding it that it was a collection of islets rather than a city.

There are several islets in this section of the river.

This section of the river has several islets.

Some of the islets are inhabited.

Predation by introduced foxes may have altered the distribution of tufted puffins, which now nest primarily on fox-free islets just offshore from the larger islands where foxes occur.

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