NOUN
- an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located
How To Use Manhattan Island In A Sentence
- I got a habit the size of Manhattan Island and no dealer will touch me.
- They were due to board boats made available by the Circle Line, whose vessels normally circumnavigate Manhattan island packed with tourists.
- In 1626, the Dutch settlers "bought"Manhattan Island from the Indians.
- The Empire State Building on New York's Manhattan Island is an architectural icon.
- The fur trade flourished and the Dutch city of New Amsterdam was established on Manhattan Island.
- Manhattan Island is a low outcrop of gneiss and mica-schist, sloping from an irregular, but practically continuous crest, to the Hudson and The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
- Along some of the main arteries that carry commuters on to Manhattan island, cars must contain more than two people to gain access.
- Eckford had become a wealthy man and, having bought a mansion and estate on Manhattan Island, he dabbled in politics.
- The family lived in a comfortable flat near the southern tip of Manhattan Island. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- Twice a year hundreds of species of migrating birds pass directly over Manhattan Island; white-throated sparrows, magnolia warblers, hawks and herons and swans.