Sentence examples for island-dweller from inspiring English sources

To give up all that history, for such a petty, self-serving, island-dweller's dream.

The bugs start multiplying like there's no tomorrow, turning unfortunate island dwellers into roach motels.

For a number of island dwellers, the self — let alone self-presentation — must not be questioned, for fear of not fitting in.

The advance publicity tantalized with talk of the island dwellers' eating rats, possible romantic liaisons and the potential cruelty in this hyper-Darwinism.

Soon, other island dwellers contributed their own artifacts, and now several rooms adjacent to the restaurant display antique fishing and herding implements, peasant clothing and photographs that recount the story of Ponza's dual nature.

He fondly recalls drinking beer and eating barbecue with other island dwellers, and he considers the community so rare that he wants to publish a collection of cabin memories.

He has often written about the Island in his several books of poetry, with what he described as an island dweller's mentality that he and many other Long Island poets inherited from Whitman.

The Gibbons family was part of the postwar migratory wave of West Indians commonly called the Windrush generation, after a ship that carried large numbers of black island dwellers to the "mother country".

With a kindness typical of island dwellers everywhere, he offered us an informal guided tour, via the rare and localised Scottish primrose to the sea cliffs at the RSPB's North Hill reserve.

A piece of peace 103,702 The number of people living on the islands at the 2011 census, the most recent survey 2 The percentage of the national population that  the Scottish  island-dwellers make up 47,103 The number of homes on Scotland's inhabited islands 250 New island jobs created by the marine renewables industry.

The CBS "Survivor" Web site, cbs.com/survivor,, which is more interesting and complex than the show itself, does venture a bit of anthropologic theorizing: "The behavior of B. B. (the 62-year-old real-estate developer who was kicked off the island last week) and Joel closely matched that of Rwanda's Silverback gorillas," says one article about two of the island dwellers.