Sentence examples for been islands from inspiring English sources

But some emergency medical technicians questioned whether top-down directives like this can work in a system in which agencies have long been islands unto themselves.

Since the water slowly rose on 2 January, the well-to-do villages of Muchelney and nearby Thorney have been "islands" separated from the "mainland" by flood waters as deep as 4m.

Surrounding Sicily are islands producing interesting wines.

National parks are islands today.

Instead, there will be islands of kiosks.

Today's apps are islands.

Instead there are islands of power distributed throughout the network.

There are islands of stalls.

Others are islands within city limits.

All the "objects" are islands.

We're island people.