Sample sentences for ARCHIPELAGO

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a group of many islands in a large body of water

The archipelago is 300 miles from Argentina.

Miraculously it survives the humidity and our moves, with only a few unwarranted archipelagos of gray mold dotting its oceans.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
He had lately made a voyage to the Indian Archipelago.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Consider: The greentime, the noontime of the archipelago.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
They would emerge a short distance away, sometimes three or four of them, a short-lived archipelago of volcanic islands.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Sakena runs an archipelago of fixed and mobile health clinics, which offer Afghans family planning services and free condoms.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
She's exactly my height and smells of liquid detergent and has tiny beautiful moles on her neck, an archipelago leading down into her clothes.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
From time to time he had had a few poems and sketches of the archipelago published in a national journal.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Deep in Madame's voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagoes and lagoons and fiords.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
They travelled in the Archipelago together and separately, collecting insects and birds, for four years or more.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
It was the aural equivalent of an island archipelago seen from the air , a chain of low humps broken by broad swaths of blue.
Stephen King -- Misery
Here, we are strewn about in the lengthy expanse of an archipelago, too far to call one another, too far to see.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
The boys stripped to their underwear and set out for a narrow archipelago of rocks.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
At dark passed into Archipelago.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The boat zipped and skipped across the sea, the sea that lay between the main islands of the only archipelago of any useful size on the whole planet.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Now the innumerable archipelago had been threaded, and he stood, firm-planted, upon the unknown but waiting continent.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
"The Archipelago," John said, his voice muted with a mix of disbelief and wonder.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
The Seses are a low-lying forested archipelago in the northwestern part of Lake Victoria, an easy boat ride from Entebbe.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
The mansions South of Broad Street form a magnificent archipelago of exclusion.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

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