: a dessert consisting of custard with floating masses of beaten egg whites
Examples of floating island in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebLodging: Visitors can either stay in Puno or book a room on one of the floating islands through Airbnb.—Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023 Mangroves might move out to sea and form giant floating islands.—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 In the previous decade, the institute promised to build a platform city off the coast of San Francisco as well as a floating island in French Polynesia.—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023 There is additional vertical exploration, including floating islands above the land, and new gameplay abilities.—Vulture, 12 May 2023 Tears of the Kingdom takes that universe and adds several new dimensions, such as floating islands and perhaps, as trailers have hinted, an underground territory.—Jason Schreier, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023 Last month, government officials in the island nation of the Maldives officially unveiled plans to build the first fully floating island city of its kind.—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2021 As many as 70 other species, including types of shrimp, crabs, fish and even birds, have adapted specifically to the floating islands of sargassum as a habitat.—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023 In Florida, Jason Garcia, a photographer for WKRG-TV, captured video of a floating island of fire ants in a flooded park in Pensacola.—CBS News, 18 Sep. 2020
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