Examples of floating island in a Sentence
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Lodging: Visitors can either stay in Puno or book a room on one of the floating islands through Airbnb.
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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
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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