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
• The terraced resort cascades 300 feet from the top of the peninsula to the beach below.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025
• 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
• Next along Highway 42 is Ephraim, perhaps the most New England-esque of the towns on the peninsula.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
• 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 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