Examples of islet in a Sentence
landed the boat on a tiny islet that we had all to ourselves
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Another obstacle is the territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands, a group of islets in the East China Sea that is ruled by Japan but claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands.
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
The property is Hilton's latest addition to its luxury Waldorf Astoria collection and is nestled on Platte Island, a small, remote islet located about 80 miles south of Mahé, the largest of the Seychelles.
—Jason Chau, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025
Marriott International was one of the first major operators to open in Bali more than 30 years ago and is now one of the first to expand to a less crowded islet.
—Michelle Tchea, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025
There’s a string of over 60 consecutive dive sites off the west coast of the main island, plus two dozen more sites around the smaller, uninhabited islet of Klein Bonaire.
—Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
The property is Hilton's latest addition to its luxury Waldorf Astoria collection and is nestled on Platte Island, a small, remote islet located about 80 miles south of Mahé, the largest of the Seychelles.
—Jason Chau, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025
Marriott International was one of the first major operators to open in Bali more than 30 years ago and is now one of the first to expand to a less crowded islet.
—Michelle Tchea, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025
There’s a string of over 60 consecutive dive sites off the west coast of the main island, plus two dozen more sites around the smaller, uninhabited islet of Klein Bonaire.
—Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Islet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islet. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət 
1
: a little island
Medical Definition
islet
noun
is·let
ˈī-lət
: a small isolated mass of one type of tissue within a different type
specifically
: islet of langerhans
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