"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The concrete island was visible only as a shadow through the shroud of mist which lay just above the water.
- The highway that ran north and east looked more like a series of concrete islands than a road.
- Most of the smaller stops are nothing more than concrete "islands" in the middle of the street next to the tracks.
- We stand on the concrete island between the double streams of traffic.
- The malls are concrete islands, wide enough for only a tree or two and a few pedestrians pausing to cross the street.
- The Broadway bulbs are concrete islands set just off the sidewalk.
- A "concrete island" is also a microclimate effect on some large cities, such as Tokyo.
- She had expanded the pool thirty years ago, making it twenty-five meters long, with a small concrete island in the center.
- Locals flee the city's sweaty concrete islands for life in the country or at the beach.
- Remaining in position behind the concrete island, he stood, to his full six feet, and peered around wildly, looking for new refuge.
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