Similar words: inland, mainly, inlay, in-laws, son-in-law, brother-in-law, maintain, sister-in-law. Meaning: ['meɪnlənd] n. the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula.
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91. Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin.
92. To reach the mainland from Anglesey, vehicles must go over the Menai Bridge where any road barrier could not be avoided.
93. A new HK$350m seaport is also planned and there will be a second bridge linking Taipa with the Macao mainland.
94. During the home rule crisis in 1885, Harland made secret preparations to withdraw to mainland Britain if the situation became intolerable.
95. By the time she returned to effective public life the turbulent years of mass riot and discontent on the mainland were past.
96. As already noted, tourism in the Western Isles is hampered by the high cost of transport from the mainland.
97. When the new shops open, they also have that all too rare mainland commodity - customers - and plenty of them.
98. Meanwhile, Citic is using its financial might to get more involved in the mainland economy.
99. The mainland of Britain is still their most likely destination.
100. Businessmen fretted that no good could come of such defiance; students delighted in the courage of their mainland counterparts.
101. Every Great Group is an island-but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
102. Most raw materials for industry and almost all the fuel have come from the mainland.
103. On the mainland I feel I have to look much smarter.
104. White political prisoners were housed on the mainland, as were women.
105. It was another still island day and I could hear the sounds of a motorbike and chainsaw on the mainland.
106. The cart stopped beside an old cottage near the edge of the mainland.
107. Some are relict populations of forms which, on the mainland, have long since succumbed in the struggle for survival.
108. He was asked to determine by investigation whether a given place was on an island or on the mainland.
109. An ambitious plan was formed for a bridge of boats to be constructed so that an attack on the mainland could be mounted.
110. The aggressive style of mainland cabaret comedy is only now reaching Northern Ireland.
111. Tor suggests we try to stop in the small bay where we will touch the mainland.
112. You cross over to the mainland again on the Lady Craigavon Bridge and follow the lough shore to Corradillar quay.
113. Back on the mainland she was again struck by the beauty of the scene.
114. The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming, he said.
115. And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
116. The temple of Hera was built in the second quarter of the century,(sentence dictionary) clearly under mainland influence.
117. In mainland Britain MI5 now has the lead role in intelligence gathering.
118. With puffins still zooming around the landing bay, we left for the mainland having had a marvellous day.
119. Is this a report debasing mainland?
120. It’s part of her clean-cut, Chinese girl-next-door image that seems to appeal to many in mainland China.
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