Examples of islet in a Sentence
landed the boat on a tiny islet that we had all to ourselves
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Last month, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi confirmed plans to deploy anti-air missiles on Yonaguni, a Ryukyu islet just 60 miles from Taiwan’s east coast.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The island is one of the Cayos Cochinos, photogenic coral islets that form part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.
—Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
The mice then received stem cell transplantation using the bone marrow cells of other mice, as well as donor islet cells (insulin-making) cells.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The previous record for staying there was 45 days and only a handful of people have even spent one night on the islet, which is over 10 hours from land by boat.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The island is one of the Cayos Cochinos, photogenic coral islets that form part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.
—Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
The mice then received stem cell transplantation using the bone marrow cells of other mice, as well as donor islet cells (insulin-making) cells.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The previous record for staying there was 45 days and only a handful of people have even spent one night on the islet, which is over 10 hours from land by boat.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Islet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islet. Accessed 17 Dec. 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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