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
• The history of the peninsula could be written in fins and scales.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Provide seating near the cooking area, such as barstools at a peninsula, so guests can relax and chat with the chef before the meal.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2023
• The duo created an entry by placing a half-wall across from the peninsula.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• Russia had leased bases in that area from Ukraine for two decades, only for Putin to invade the entire peninsula in 2014.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
• Enter the peninsula’s photogenic beaches, all just a hop and a skip from town.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• Hardest hit were sparse fishing and beach towns scattered along the Big Bend, the crook in the state that connects the Panhandle to the Florida peninsula.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The controls for the exterior mirrors and windows are now on a peninsula that can be grabbed when closing the door.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2023
• Effectively, the peninsula will turn into a desert with a naval base.
  — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• The peninsula was pushed further out into the dining area to open things up, Morbitzer says.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Qatar, a gas-rich peninsula in the Persian Gulf, has mediated talks between Israel and Hamas since the start of the conflict.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• The fighting covered large swaths of the peninsula but failed to yield a decisive victory.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Big Bend is a densely forested and rural area where the state's peninsula connects with its panhandle.
  — Nikol Mudrová, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Portions of the Florida peninsula have been above and below sea level at least four times.
  — Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• And while the kitchen wasn’t wide enough for an island, the peninsula makes up for it, allowing the family to have breakfast there and providing more counter space.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Crimean Tatars considered the peninsula their historic homeland.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Or choose a counter-height kitchen table with comfortable, taller chairs to make the table feel like an extension of the island or peninsula.
  — Cameron Sullivan, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• The peninsula experiences fissure eruptions, where the ground splits open and lava pours out.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• On Tuesday, police called in more officers to the northern peninsula to assist in the search for the former radio host, who is in his 60s, the BBC reported.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• Witt grew up in Michigan's northern peninsula and played eight-man high school football as a wide receiver.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2023
• Hilary was centered about 360 miles south-southwest of Los Cabos by the southern tip of the Baja peninsula as of early Friday.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• With your savings, continue onto a puddle-jumper flight to Placencia and book a suite at one of the luxe beachfront resorts on the peninsula.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
• In the meantime, Kyiv will continue to plot ways in which to target Russian military assets in Crimea and project its power over the peninsula.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024