Sample Sentences for
peninsula
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    It looked, he thought, rather like the Pacific Northwest, the Olympic Peninsula.  (source)
    Peninsula = large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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    The whole Cotentin Peninsula has been captured just three weeks after the invasion!  (source)
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    Oh, Walt, it looks just like the Upper Peninsula!  (source)
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    The next morning, she rounded the peninsula and saw Chase in his boat, just offshore.  (source)
    peninsula = land projecting into a body of water
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    General Principles, who fought in the Peninsular War.†  (source)
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    But in its glow they could both see that the rock that had enclosed them so long ended up ahead in ragged twin peninsulas that pointed toward a gulf of darkness ahead-the chasm over the river.†  (source)
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    Dragging himself ashore on the Japanese-occupied Bataan Peninsula, he had begun a run for China, hiking through jungles and over mountains, navigating the coast in boats donated by sympathetic Filipinos, hitching rides on burros, and surviving in part by eating ants.  (source)
    Peninsula = large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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    Beneath the peninsular fort of La Cite, across the river from the old city, there are rooms of bandages, rooms of ammunition, even an underground hospital, or so it is believed.†  (source)
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    I'll engage, when the truth comes to be known, they'll turn out to be nothing but peninsulas, or promontories; or continents; though these are matters, I daresay, of which you know little or nothing.†  (source)
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    The previous Thursday, the first day of spring, had been the Afghan New Year's Day—the Sawl-e-Nau—and Afghans in the Bay Area had planned celebrations throughout the East Bay and the peninsula.  (source)
    peninsula = land projecting into a body of water
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    The idea of a peninsular Macondo prevailed for a long time, inspired by the arbitrary map that Jose Arcadio Buendia sketched on his return from the expedition.†  (source)
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    In the simplest terms, as he drew in his own rough map, the setting was one of three irregular peninsulas at the head of Boston Harbor, with the peninsula of Boston in the middle, that of Charlestown (and Bunker Hill) just to the north, and Dorchester close by to the south.†  (source)
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    I grew up in a poor, rural, racially segregated settlement on the eastern shore of the Delmarva Peninsula, in Delaware, where the racial history of this country casts a long shadow The coastal communities that stretched from Virginia and eastern Maryland to lower Delaware were unapologetically Southern.  (source)
    Peninsula = large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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