Sentence examples for islands down from inspiring English sources

Tourists have worn those islands down to mere nubs.

And two or three islands down from Tybee, there are wild horses that came with the Spaniards in the 1600s.

"The islands down there are pretty isolated — hunks of rock, no trees, windswept — but if you scrounge around you can find some slime molds," Stephenson said.

I had been traveling in the Philippines for two months and had gone down to Mindanao with the vaguely romantic notion of skipping islands down the Sulu Archipelago -- Basilan, Jolo, Tawi-Tawi.

"Think about this: it takes 15 days to float from mainland Ecuador to Galápagos," explained naturalist Ruly Menoscal, as we admired a metre-wide giant tortoise, one of 11 remaining species on the islands, down from 15 when Darwin stepped ashore.

On the first stop of the day we had to be sure they were ready to provide the vehicles that would be taking the people on their tours round the islands, down to the beautiful beaches, up the mountains and to places like a tweed mill on the Isle of Harris, a salmon smokery and on to the nearest castles.

27 Shell Creek Park, Barnum Island: Down and Dirty.

It flattened the island down to mud and coral.

That pushed Justin Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" (Island) down one spot to No. 4 with 225,000.

Q.I live on the Upper West Side, where Broadway has a wide island down the middle of the block.

The Marshall Islands' foreign minister, Tony de Brum, said he was "dismayed" by the "insensitivity... [of] the big polluting island down south".