Antilles

[ US /ænˈtɪɫiz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of islands in the West Indies
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How To Use Antilles In A Sentence

  • The three islets to the east are part of a national ornithological reserve; there are more sea birds here, including puffins and frigatebirds, than anywhere else in the Lesser Antilles. Take Monday Off: Martinique
  • Source: Mifter/Wikipedia See Hispaniolan moist forests, Hispaniolan pine forests, Enriquillo wetlands, and Greater Antilles mangroves Haiti
  • The currency is the Netherlands Antilles florin or ‘guilder ‘, with an exchange rate fixed to the US dollar: Naf1.75 = US $1.’
  • Any anchorage with a mangrove shoreline is likely to produce mangrove snapper and, if you are in the Greater Antilles or along the South American coast, snook.
  • Before traveling to the colony, when still he had no suspicion that his destiny was going to play a trick on him, or that he would end up in cane fields in the Antilles, he had been invited to Versailles to one of the parties in honor of the new dauphine, a young blonde of fourteen, who yawned openly in the rigid protocol of the French court. 'Island Beneath the Sea'
  • Hispaniola is part of the group of islands known as the Greater Antilles. Haiti
  • Mention the phrase to a biogeographer or a population biologist or a theoretical ecologist or an ornithologist who has worked in New Guinea or Indonesia or the Antilles, and your meaning is clear. The Song of The Dodo
  • Out of fear of becoming decolonized as a part of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba opted for separate status.
  • There was this conviction in Froude that since History is based on achievement, and since the history of the Antilles was so genetically corrupt, so depressing in its cycles of massacres, slavery, and indenture, a culture was inconceivable and nothing could ever be created in those ramshackle ports, those monotonously feudal sugar estates. Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
  • The name signaled from the Netherlands Antilles by Paula. Walls of Silence
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