"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The great irony, of course, is that by requiring the State to place the majority-minority district in a particular place and with a particular shape, the district may stand out as a stark, placid island in a sea of oddly shaped majority-white neighbors.
- There would be, in the next day or so, plenty of nice times on this placid island.
- It drifted like an island, placid and unconcerned, as if it had never been threatened in its life.
- Jay, however, remained untouched, a placid island in an agitated ebb and flow of acquisitiveness.
- But in fact, amid the quiet streets of well-tended single-family homes on the city's most placid island, poverty is growing twice as fast as in those boroughs.
- The placid green island below harbors a desperate situation, but in the resolution of it lies the answer to the mystery that has haunted me for more than a year.
- For a long time, Waterside Plaza was a seemingly placid island in the city off First Avenue, around 25th Street, a village of 1,500 families, secure, self-contained.
- We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
- In 1966, I succeeded her as vice consul on the placid island of Trinidad, where she was both legend and hard act to follow.
- The logical next step is St. Agnes, just southwest of St. Mary's, a placid island of some 30 cottages, with a 19th-century church and a disused and very old lighthouse in the center.
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