Sentence examples for off the mainland from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chen's supporters tend to shrug off the mainland warnings.

Floating off the mainland". According to Christensen, "Californians often think of themselves as an island.

Kolguyev lies in the Barents Sea and is 45 miles (72 km) off the mainland.

And one that 16 buccaneer families, kicked off the mainland in 1661, made their home.

He never made it off the mainland, Mr. Banks recalled recently, but just being in Florida felt revolutionary.

If it broke off the mainland of North America and drifted away in fragments, that event would get our attention.

Though she was off on the mainland when I visited, we caught up a few days later.

As we stood in the driveway and prepared to set off for the mainland, we speculated about the traffic.

Unprecedentedly, Mum had gone off to the mainland for a few days, leaving Dad with my sister and me.

He moved to Daufuskie Island in South Carolina, teaching in an isolated, mainly black, community that was cut off from the mainland.

"Bad actors will become isolated islands of reputation, cut off from the mainland of good people," he says.