How to Use atoll in a Sentence

atoll

noun
  • My mom told me this was called an atoll, a kind of island made of coral.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • In short, atolls might not be such outliers in this world after all.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
  • The next day, the team flew over the atoll, and saw something written on the sand.
    — Irene Wright, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Some of the atolls and islands have just a few hundred people on them.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • When the southeastern trade winds blow, our atoll is in order.
    — Celeste Brash, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Now is your chance to bid for a coral atoll ecosystem in one of the most pristine parts of the world.
    — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • There is one airport, one bank, one hospital and one road that spans the length of the atoll.
    — Alexander Lee, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • When seas rise, corals build themselves up in a ring around that depression, forming an atoll.
    — Alexandra Witze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Malaysia and Brunei are the other claimants to the chain of islands and barren islets and atolls.
    — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The Bikinians expected to return to their atoll in a few months.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Research took place on Roi-Namur island, which is part of the atoll.
    — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The plan remains early-stage, with surveys set to evaluate the atoll.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And Aldabra, one of the world’s largest coral atolls, is quite inhospitable to visitors.
    — Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The plan was to draw the American air carriers to the atoll and ambush them.
    — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 28 May 2017
  • The weather is so much more unpredictable on an atoll—and its consequences are more severe.
    — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Moreover, the atoll is vulnerable to typhoons, storm surges, as well as long-term sea level rise.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, in recent decades, a tourism industry has blossomed here thanks to the atoll’s wild residents.
    — Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean, there lives a flightless bird called the Aldabra rail.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • With roughly 180 resorts spread across its atolls, there are dozens of worthy five-star escapes to choose from.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The three-person crew aboard a 23-foot skiff set out from Pulawat atoll on Thursday.
    — Fox News, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The airstrip, which divided the island into north and south, was the main objective of the assault on the atoll.
    — Natasha Frost Maud Bodoukian Meyrant, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • York was part of a Navy force occupying Betio, the main island in the atoll.
    — al, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The entire south side of the atoll appeared to be wiped clean by Walaka, according to Buehler.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2019
  • On a coral atoll in the Western Pacific, the device grew slowly.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean.
    — Keiran Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Dives along the outer reef of the 15-mile atoll revealed the seaweed in varying densities and depths.
    — Author: Caleb Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2020
  • One of them is the lack of detailed geological research on the atoll and its surrounding seabed.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Brando hired him to construct a home on the 12-island atoll of Tetiaroa, Tahiti.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The string of islands and tiny atolls was the site of more than 65 nuclear tests during the Cold War.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • Ambitious coral restoration efforts are underway across the atolls of the Maldives — with the help of some hands-on guests.
    — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024

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