How to Use mainland in a Sentence

mainland

noun

• Hawaii expats to the mainland brought their love of Spam musubis with them.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some fares from Maui to the mainland U.S. are under $100.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Her youngest son had been planning to move home from the mainland to live there.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Styles’ Love on Tour trek has dates scheduled in mainland Europe for the rest of the month.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• But back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• The northern part of the island remains untouched and is home to wildlife rarely seen on the mainland.
  — Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
• But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• Each year, some men are lost at sea, and some young people move to the mainland for the promise of a better life.
  — Kristen Martin, NPR, 16 May 2024
• The pair split their time between Hong Kong and mainland China.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• And as the film ends, the final shot is of Helen's triumphant face, watching the boats from the mainland close in on the island.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 Dec. 2022
• In some cases, the trip will mark their first travel outside the mainland in some three years.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
• China has long claimed sovereignty over the island and has vowed to reunify it with the rest of the mainland by 2027.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
• His shakedown cruise was from the mainland to Sardinia, with a five-person crew aboard.
  — Tonya Russell, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
• Milton will be the fifth hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland in 2024.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• The cost of living is around 11 percent lower than on the mainland, and rents are about 53 percent less.
  — Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2024
• These landforms act as a buffer, protecting the mainland from the storms that blow in off the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The soccer player last played in mainland China in June 2023.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
• Her parents were born in mainland China and grew up in Taiwan.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 31 May 2023
• Taiwan is a self-governing island off the coast of China that split from the mainland in 1949.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 19 June 2023
• In total, the couple spent ten days in Zanzibar and another eight on the mainland.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2023
• Dzhankoy is a key hub for Russians using roads and railways about 50 miles south of the Ukrainian mainland.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Late Tuesday morning, the storm was moving northwest across the mainland at about 20 mph.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2023
• Ferries leave once a week from the mainland on Fridays and return on Sundays.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
• Stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as the Chinese currency, weakened on the news.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• The strait, which separates Taiwan from mainland China, is the site of one of the world’s more intractable disputes.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• And it’s located on the mainland, not on a private island.
  — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 30 Dec. 2022
• Both governments claimed sovereignty over the island and the mainland.
  — Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2024
• Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949 during a civil war, is claimed by China.
  — Time, 27 Dec. 2022
• Many reporters—usually mainland transplants like myself—would stick around for just a couple years before moving on, and some only lasted months.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
• And multinational media groups have turned to Taiwan as Hong Kong and mainland China companies have become more complicated to work with.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024