[
US
/əˈɫuʃənz/
]
NOUN
- an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
How To Use Aleutians In A Sentence
- The ship, the same size of the Golden Seas, ran aground Dec. 8, 2004, and broke apart on the north side of Unalaska Island, also in the Aleutians. StarTribune.com rss feed
- A messy maritime incident that's getting worse, a cargo ship ran aground in the Aleutians.
- Stretching from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the easternmost Aleutian Islands, the Aleutians East Borough is like no other place on earth.
- My wife's granddad, a three-war Air Force officer, flew Lightings against the Zeroes and Bettys in the Aleutians and New Guinea before he was shipped back to run a flight school in Texas and met her grandmother, recently widowed from the love of her life by bombing runs over Japan. Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
- But there were many other significant players in the multiservice campaign: carrier-based aviators in Hellcats, Corsairs, Avengers, and Helldivers; long-range patrol bombers from the Aleutians; Mustang pilots from Iwo Jima; and almost everything in the Army Air Forces inventory from Okinawa. Whirlwind
- Breeding territory spans half the globe, from Iceland to the Aleutians.
- It is the term used in the Aleutians for a cold storm, and williwaws were the conditions during this conflict.