How to Use mainland in a Sentence

mainland

noun

• Hawaii expats to the mainland brought their love of Spam musubis with them.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some fares from Maui to the mainland U.S. are under $100.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Her youngest son had been planning to move home from the mainland to live there.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Styles’ Love on Tour trek has dates scheduled in mainland Europe for the rest of the month.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• But back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• China has long claimed sovereignty over the island and has vowed to reunify it with the rest of the mainland by 2027.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
• These landforms act as a buffer, protecting the mainland from the storms that blow in off the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The soccer player last played in mainland China in June 2023.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
• Her parents were born in mainland China and grew up in Taiwan.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 31 May 2023
• Taiwan is a self-governing island off the coast of China that split from the mainland in 1949.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 19 June 2023
• In total, the couple spent ten days in Zanzibar and another eight on the mainland.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2023
• Late Tuesday morning, the storm was moving northwest across the mainland at about 20 mph.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2023
• Ferries leave once a week from the mainland on Fridays and return on Sundays.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
• Stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as the Chinese currency, weakened on the news.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• The strait, which separates Taiwan from mainland China, is the site of one of the world’s more intractable disputes.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• There may be no going back without the collapse of communism on the mainland.
  — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• The latter is no big deal to consumers in mainland China, but a big deal for everyone else.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Attending the closest big tournament means a flight to the mainland.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• In 1856, when Abbie was sixteen, her father went to the mainland to pick up supplies, leaving her in charge.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Gou is all for close ties with the Chinese mainland, where Foxconn’s main interests lie.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Today, they are widely grown in Hawaii and exported to the United States mainland.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Amy Chang Chien covers news in mainland China and Taiwan.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• But more Iguanodon remains, thought to be from a time when the island was still connected to the mainland, were found shortly after on the Isle of Wight.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
• The third trip was to a remote part of North America – an Inuit village on the northern edge of mainland Canada.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
• What to Do The Izu Peninsula was once an island until bridged with the mainland after an eruption.
  — Jonny Bierman, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
• Shares in mainland China and Hong Kong fell this month, worsening their declines throughout the year.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• An uprising by enslaved people on the island led her to return to the mainland to begin life anew in 1790.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Tasmania is an island state off the southeastern coast of Australia, about 150 miles from the mainland.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• The protests were calculated to be the largest public demonstrations in many years in mainland China.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024