Sentence examples for islands rather from inspiring English sources

Many of the famous birds live on several islands rather than one.

"For the first time, there are now 1,500 islands rather than one central system of command".

Not so fragrant ReprintsChina, however, has chosen to take the matter of the islands rather more seriously.

Austria's foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, has called for asylum seekers to be kept on islands rather than having direct access to the continent.

Set up as islands, rather than in long supermarket-like aisles, each showcase has its own cash register and sales staff.

Some cruise lines have even bought their own model islands, rather than release their charges ashore to spend money in other people's shops and restaurants.

However, you might want to get to Easter Island rather soon.

An earlier version referred to Gibraltar as an island, rather than a peninsula.

That's what he called her and other Cubans who left the island rather than serve la revolución.

"Manhattan's minority constituent" had me going for a while, and I admit that I was stuck on the island rather than the drink.

That may be easier on an island rather than just outside the capital Sana'a, where the Los Angeles Times reckoned the prison would be situated.