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"Mainland" in a Sentence (14 examples)
We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.
The island is cut off far from the mainland.
All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.
It is usually the islander who sees the mainland most clearly.
Often, Kanji is like nonsense in Japanese because it has multiple readings, including the native and the mainland import.
All students have to learn both national languages in mainland Finland.
Trying to secede from the mainland, the fissiparous polities have been causing serious problems to the central authority.
A causeway connecting a United States island to the mainland disappears beneath the sea several times a year, thereby cutting off the town from the mainland.
Portugal is made up of the mainland and the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Tomorrow, I am coming back from Hong Kong to the mainland.
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[…]I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.
You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.
Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.
All of the people I interviewed were from Protestant backgrounds, with proud British traditions. Yet when they set foot on the mainland, they were met at times with jeering, derision and othering from the very people with whom they were raised to believe they had the most in common.
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