How to Use peninsula in a Sentence

peninsula

noun
  • They built their house on a narrow peninsula.
  • The latest eruption is the fifth on the peninsula since 2021.
    Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • On the north, it is anchored to a peninsula of land that is soon to be a park.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • This eruption is the eighth on the peninsula since 2021.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • The caves are about a 1-mile paddle from Meyers Beach on the west side of the peninsula.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The main sink is in a counter peninsula that faces the river and offers views of the backyard.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The history of the peninsula could be written in fins and scales.
    Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In a war on the peninsula, the KPAF might end up being a single-use force.
    David Axe, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • In the kitchen, an eat-in peninsula is the perfect spot to grab a bite before work with a view of the backyard.
    Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024
  • One trench is being dug on the peninsula’s east coast near a border gate to the DMZ.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Burns is from Florida City, Fla., on the very tip of the peninsula.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 31 July 2021
  • Crews hoped to finish repairs on the north end of the peninsula Sunday, the post said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Amble along Main Street and the Bearskin Neck peninsula and soak up the artsy vibes.
    Amy Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2024
  • An opening between the peninsula on the right and more counter space on the left — both topped with granite — leads to the work area.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Tunnel Island, in the western part of the lake, is now a peninsula.
    Will Lanzoni, CNN, 18 June 2021
  • On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its coastline and reclaim land from the sea.
    TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
  • For one, its location on the southern coast of the peninsula is remote and wild, a 20-minute drive from the heart of St.-Tropez.
    Madeline Diamond, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Those three words were put on a bus that toured the state, visiting fans from the Motor City to the tip of the lower peninsula.
    Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
  • All that’s on top of Putin’s seizure of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and his military aid to rebels in the eastern part of the country.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • But the old donkey paths that were once the only routes across the peninsula now serve as a network of walking trails.
    Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Eight to 16 inches of snow is likely, reaching 2 feet in some parts of the peninsula.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Crimea is a strategic peninsula along the Black Sea in southern Ukraine.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Samaná peninsula, this bright orange liqueur – each bottle is packed with the juice of 12 to 18 fruits – is more tart then sweet.
    Katie Chang, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Surge will also be possible along the rest of the Florida peninsula -- both on the east side and the west side.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 9 Nov. 2022
  • There is a spot on the southern side of the peninsula that is empty and natural and peaceful.
    Kim Gooden, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And Caltrain, the peninsula commuter line, doesn’t stop at the airport.
    Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • Las Palmas sat on a peninsula, set off from the rest of the island by barren mountains.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The film, which will be released Nov. 22, is set in the Iberian peninsula and tells the story of the magical Kingdom of Rosas.
    Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The nations on the Korean peninsula are still technically at war and have been since an armistice marked the end of the Korean War in 1953.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • The all-inclusive resort is among the properties in the peninsula’s hotel corridor.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2025

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