Definition of "isthmuses" [isthmuses]

• Plural form of isthmus. (noun)

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• "Oh, the winner of this week's contest is Matt Bradshaw from the isthmuses of Gmail."
• "Peter Plagens has written metaphorically about Francis' paintings of the late 50s as pilot's-eye views over an ocean, characterizing them as "mural-sized canvases whose oceans of glaring white are interrupted by continents, islands, peninsulas, and isthmuses of intense blue, red, and yellow...""
• "With respect to their towns, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled towns, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defence against a neighbour."