Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island off southern Rhode Island at the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound. Visited by Dutch explorers in 1614, it was settled in 1661.
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Examples
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I am thankful for Block Island where my family and our friends rest and play.
Jim Wallis: Thankful Indeed Jim Wallis 2011
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I am thankful for Block Island where my family and our friends rest and play.
Jim Wallis: Thankful Indeed Jim Wallis 2011
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I met him at his luncheon thing a couple months ago when you and Billy took the boat to Block Island.
Monkeytown excerpt 3 Chris Vola 2011
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I am thankful for Block Island where my family and our friends rest and play.
Jim Wallis: Thankful Indeed Jim Wallis 2011
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I am thankful for Block Island where my family and our friends rest and play.
Jim Wallis: Thankful Indeed Jim Wallis 2011
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A trip to Block Island "the Bermuda of the North," a partygoer quipped, then Nantucket, then Newport.
Melissa Berkelhammer: Friday Night, And the Cruising Is Easy Melissa Berkelhammer 2011
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The department is also hoping to gauge the private sector's interest in developing the area, which is east of Rhode Island's Block Island and southwest of Martha's Vineyard, part of Massachusetts.
U.S. Weighs Wind Farm Off New England Coast Ryan Tracy 2011
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A trip to Block Island "the Bermuda of the North," a partygoer quipped, then Nantucket, then Newport.
Melissa Berkelhammer: Friday Night, And the Cruising Is Easy Melissa Berkelhammer 2011
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I am thankful for Block Island where my family and our friends rest and play.
Jim Wallis: Thankful Indeed Jim Wallis 2011
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Last month, Rhode Island regulators rejected a deal between National Grid and Deepwater Wind to buy power from a planned eight-turbine wind farm off Block Island, citing the high price.
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