Examples of islet in a Sentence
landed the boat on a tiny islet that we had all to ourselves
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The channel forked into a series of smaller canals, each branching farther or looping around islets or petering out into dead ends.
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Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Doing that starts with making urban heat islets visible.
—Dan O'Brien, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025
More than 100 islands make up the Broken Group, where visitors may see whales, sea lions and otters among the rocky islets.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2025
One of the coolest places to see on an excursion with Everglades Area Tours is Ten Thousand Islands, a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast that’s partially designated as a National Wildlife Refuge.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
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Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Doing that starts with making urban heat islets visible.
—Dan O'Brien, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025
More than 100 islands make up the Broken Group, where visitors may see whales, sea lions and otters among the rocky islets.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2025
One of the coolest places to see on an excursion with Everglades Area Tours is Ten Thousand Islands, a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast that’s partially designated as a National Wildlife Refuge.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
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“Islet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islet. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət 
1
: a little island
Medical Definition
islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət
: a small isolated mass of one type of tissue within a different type
specifically
: islet of langerhans
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