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lesbos

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Uploaded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize photograph of migrants from Turkey landing on Lesbos in October after battling rough seas:...

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An island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

An island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lesbos.

noun

An island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Example sentences

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Uploaded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize photograph of migrants from Turkey landing on Lesbos in October after battling rough seas:...

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It made it happen because instead of having endless meetings and brainstorming sessions in Lesbos or Johannesburg, the heartless ignoramuses of Texas figured out how to drill for clean energy.

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I almost lost a my job over distrowatch once, was distro called lesbos (debian based) - was harmless mistake that turned into a sitiuation comedy involving a offline printer and a lady being first in the office to turn on the printer the next day.

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(That's good because I wasn't used to shifting with my left hand and was kinda freaked out for the first half hour or so of driving.) A guy I knew had volunteered on Lesbos during the refugee crisis and can't drive a stick so he couldn't drive there.

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So, they might be staying in a camp for years (my wife volunteered in one such camp on Lesbos).

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So far it only offers logistical information for the Greek island of Lesbos, the primary entry point for those going on to Europe.

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Aristotle, ever practical, however tied the knot on the Isle of Lesbos.

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"Sapphic" and "Lesbian" originate from a poet, Sappho, residing on the Greek island of Lesbos, whose work was very...

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“We’re living the days of 2015,” said Pantelis Dimitriou from Iliaktida, a local NGO on Lesbos operating accommodation and support centres for the newly arrived.

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People from Hamburg, Lesbos, or Frankfurt?

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Funny story about lead rulers: An alternative name for them (and the name that I originally learned for them) is a "Lesbian curve" because the lead to make them originally came from Lesbos.

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The most common thing they get from a new client seeing the hot chick, cool car posters, "Are you all lesbos?" "Do guys work here too?" And it has been sort of a laugh 'o rama from there.

Quote examples

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"Sapphic" and "Lesbian" originate from a poet, Sappho, residing on the Greek island of Lesbos, whose work was very...

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“We’re living the days of 2015,” said Pantelis Dimitriou from Iliaktida, a local NGO on Lesbos operating accommodation and support centres for the newly arrived.

3

Funny story about lead rulers: An alternative name for them (and the name that I originally learned for them) is a "Lesbian curve" because the lead to make them originally came from Lesbos.

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The most common thing they get from a new client seeing the hot chick, cool car posters, "Are you all lesbos?" "Do guys work here too?" And it has been sort of a laugh 'o rama from there.

Proper noun examples

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So, they might be staying in a camp for years (my wife volunteered in one such camp on Lesbos).

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So far it only offers logistical information for the Greek island of Lesbos, the primary entry point for those going on to Europe.

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Aristotle, ever practical, however tied the knot on the Isle of Lesbos.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use lesbos in a sentence?

Uploaded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize photograph of migrants from Turkey landing on Lesbos in October after battling rough seas:...

What does lesbos mean?

An island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

What part of speech is lesbos?

lesbos is commonly used as noun.