How to Use isthmus in a Sentence

isthmus

noun

• Head to the other side of the isthmus (Railay East) for a rockin' bar scene.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
• The 21 million-year-old teeth were found on part of the isthmus that was a peninsula at the time.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2016
• Head to the other side of the isthmus (Railay East) for a happening bar scene.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• Windy weather on the isthmus also kept the insects away.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
• Vestiges of the famous trackway can still be seen on the isthmus today.
  — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• On one side of this narrow isthmus, the waves of the Gulf break on a rocky beach with full force; the other side looks out onto a sheltered bay.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• Langlade used to be its own island, but now it’s connected by a sand isthmus.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• The two regions reside on opposing sides of the isthmus.
  — Debbie Ponchner, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
• The elders in his family would tell him of the Zapotecs who lived on the isthmus and regale him with their folklore.
  — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• There are multiple mountain ranges on the southern edge of the isthmus, but there’s a gap that allows winds through.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Chonhar bridge hit overnight is one of just a handful of access roads to Crimea, which is linked to the Ukrainian mainland by a narrow isthmus.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 22 June 2023
• The blue lines could be a stamp, a tattoo, an island, a spit, an isthmus, a lake, a mountain of two lopsided circles.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Part of this route is around the Garrison which bulges like a balloon from the rest of the island, separated by an isthmus.
  — Kate Eshelby, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Squeezed onto an isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, with three other lakes in the area.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2022
• The prospect of digging a canal across the narrow isthmus had been floating around for more than two centuries before the project came about, with various stops and starts.
  — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Mosquito Coast is the nickname for the Caribbean side of the isthmus, so-called for the indigenous tribe native to the area and not the pesky bug—although there are plenty of those.
  — Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2022
• Heading east, add the five-mile Harwood Lakes segment—camp on an isthmus between lakes—and then the 6.5-mile Firth Lake stretch, which skirts the rims of kettle lakes in deep forest.
  — Outside Online, 3 Nov. 2020
• For most, a visit to the isthmus country begins with a quick stop in the capital city before jetting off to nature.
  — Julia Eskins, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2019
• It’s connected to Ukraine by a narrow isthmus to the north but is separated from Russia by a stretch of water called the Kerch Strait.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• On a recent morning, workers were laying fresh tracks on the train route that will cross the isthmus, carrying cargo from the Pacific to the Gulf.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• My uncles hopped off, driving stakes into the bank with large mallets and tying lines to keep the stern from drifting onto the low-lying isthmus.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The island’s isthmus—the horizontal stroke of that lowercase r—seems to be submerged.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Kokaral had become a peninsula and then an isthmus as the water level dropped.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
• Pagan is actually two volcanoes; the other is across the isthmus from the one that's erupting.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2012
• The three largest islands are the sandy isthmus of Lamu itself, the coralline Manda, and the mysterious Pate, which is only accessible at high tide.
  — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2021
• The United States wants to see more migration patrols along the 200km-wide southern Mexican isthmus.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• Drenching rains were expected in Belize, as well as in northern Honduras and throughout Guatemala as the storm crosses the isthmus Thursday.
  — From Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2020
• The first two had a variety of locks and breakwaters to deal with, while the third was all about making the Culebra Cut through the continental divide to connect Gatun Lake to the isthmus’ southern coast.
  — Shane Spraggs, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Within days three of the group died and the glowing euphoria of adventure was replaced by deep resentment at being misled about the dangers of the isthmus.
  — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Feb. 2022
• This process contributed to the closure of the Central American isthmus, which finally occurred about 3 million years ago.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024