Sentence examples for island in front of from inspiring English sources
We have an Aga with a big central island in front of it.
Everyone placed their island in front of the Barbados painting to see how our own works matched up to the painting by Isaac Sailmaker.
Or the tiny pocket park — really more of an island — in front of what was once Lower Manhattan's thriving Cotton Exchange, built in the heyday of the 1920s?
It was shot late last summer at nine varyingly iconic New York City locations, including St. Marks Place, Flushing Meadows Park, Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, and Coney Island in front of a wall that was later damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Little did I ever imagine I would be playing my 1,000th match for a team from a small island, in front of 1,200 people wearing brightly coloured headbands, as is the fashion here.
Six years ago, during the custody battle over Elián González, the five-year-old boy who was rescued after his mother and others drowned while trying to reach Florida in a motorboat, Castro ordered the construction of a permanent protest forum on a traffic island in front of the Interests Section.
This can be seen clearly considering the arc of ancient volcanoes emerging as oceanic islands in front of Mt. Cameroon (including Bioko Island) and present-day volcano Mt. Cameroon itself, whose slopes emerge from the coastline and rise to more than 4000 m above sea level.
With the island looming in front of them, one man held the Japanese flag while Mr. Yanai read a warning against invading the islands addressed to the man expected to be China's next leader, Xi Jinping.
Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,400 years ago, describing it as "an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules," as the Straits of Gibraltar were known in antiquity.
Now the Election Commission in the world's third-largest democracy has the unenviable task of counting the results from nearly half a million polling stations across some 8,000 islands - in front of a nation fixated on the result.
Leading a large crowd, they gathered on a traffic island in Centre Street, in front of the city's Municipal Building, and blocked the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.
