NOUN
- a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
- a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
How To Use Faroes In A Sentence
- When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
- The Faroese also boast some spectacular road tunnels, but they're not so excited about these feats of engineering that they feel obliged to name them after people.
- It is reported from several localities on the Faroes, such as Suduroy, where it occurs with mesolite and native copper.
- Peter's been to the Faroes, we've been to the Orkneys and Iain, with various crew, has been making his southings down the West Coast visiting his old haunts.
- Greenpeace has in the past campaigned against the Faroese whale hunt, drawing vehement criticism from the islanders.
- It's a sign of the times that on the other side of the building container after container is lined up, newly arrived by cargo ship mainly from the Faroes and Iceland, and groaning with fish.
- Greenpeace has in the past campaigned against the Faroese whale hunt, drawing vehement criticism from the islanders.
- Dicuil, a cosmographer who wrote a description of the world c. 825 in the court of Charles the Bald, probably came from Iona, and he describes other Iona monks ranging as far north as the Faroes and as far south as Egypt.
- They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent,(Sentence dictionary) warm-blooded mammal.
- In the Faroes and St Kilda, the nesting grounds were communal property, so everyone had a stake in leaving enough birds to breed for next year.