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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
island-hop .
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Examples
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Tourists island-hopped around Tahiti, the French Polynesian island of Moorea and will head to the Anaa atoll, where they will wake up early to view the eclipse expected to last three minutes.
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Officials suspect three or four sub-adult male grizzlies are responsible for this year's sightings, having paddled and island-hopped their way westward from the B.C. mainland.
Grizzly Bears Sighted On Vancouver Island Dave Hurteau 2008
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The discovery of the hand ax suggests that people besides technologically modern humans—possibly Homo heidelbergensis—island-hopped across the Mediterranean tens of thousands of millennia earlier than expected.
Archive 2010-02-14 Bill Crider 2010
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Having reached and multiplied upon their first Galapagos island, the tortoises would with comparative ease – again accidentally – have island-hopped the much shorter distances to the rest of the archipelago by the same means.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Having reached and multiplied upon their first Galapagos island, the tortoises would with comparative ease – again accidentally – have island-hopped the much shorter distances to the rest of the archipelago by the same means.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Humans expanded into southern Asia along the coast and also island-hopped their way to Australia and New Guinea using coastal food resources.
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From February to July 1944, theJohnston bombarded beaches in the Marshalls, Carolines, and Marianas, as the Americans island-hopped westward.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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From February to July 1944, theJohnston bombarded beaches in the Marshalls, Carolines, and Marianas, as the Americans island-hopped westward.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Hawaii, the fighters island-hopped to Japan, with en route stops at Midway, Wake, Eniwetok, Guam, and Two Jima.
Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990
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California to Hawaii days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and then island-hopped to
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