Sample Sentences foratoll (editor-reviewed)
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Darwin explained the creation of coral atolls in the South Pacific.atolls = islands (that are made of coral reefs)
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The Maldives is a small island nation that consists of 26 atolls.
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They were on an atoll in the Marshall Islands. (source)atoll = island (that is made of a coral reef)
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Deep in Madame's voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagoes and lagoons and fiords. (source)atolls = islands (that are made of circular coral reefs)
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Above, the setting sun flared gaudy and inhuman, blood-red shelves of cloud that suggested end-times footage of catastrophe and ruin: detonations on Pacific atolls, wildlife running before sheets of flame. (source)
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Better one of the great sea-simoons blowing up out of the cold belly of the south, lashing before it the motile isles and their dolphin herders until they seek refuge in the lee of our atolls and stony peaks. (source)
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He wondered how much range the Atoll had.† (source)
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This region isn't very well charted, but there are countless little coral atolls dotting the ocean. (source)atolls = islands (that are made of circular coral reefs)
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On the second day his company was assembled on the top deck and told that they were moving toward Tarawa atoll, where they would go ashore at Betio, a strongly defended island.† (source)
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Following the reception, John and I are to take the Presidential Suite at the Grand, where we shall stay but a single night prior to our departure on the Ocean Star, bound for the Pacific Atolls. (source)
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5 was showered with radioactive fallout from an American test at Bikini Atoll.† (source)
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Outside our window, there was now a brown lake dotted with atolls of red mud.† (source)
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Do you long to see a fireball, an actual test shot—they are outlawed of course by now, atmospheric blasts, but you wish you'd seen one of the monster shots that vapored an atoll way back when.† (source)
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In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.† (source)
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Because water lies only four feet below the surface of the Tarawa atoll, the Japanese could not build underground defenses.† (source)
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This, at least, is the theory of Mr. Charles Darwin, who thus explains the formation of atolls—a theory superior, in my view, to the one that says these madreporic edifices sit on the summits of mountains or volcanoes submerged a few feet below sea level.† (source)
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