the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
Recent Examples on the WebBut with few landmasses in that latitudinal range to site meteorological stations, scientists don’t have instrumental data to determine when, exactly, that shift in the wind began.—Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024 The United States has long considered Oman to be a strong loyal ally, a peaceful nation 1,500 miles and a landmass away from Gaza.—Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 21 May 2024 The rain forest makes up seventy-eight per cent of Brazil’s landmass but contains less than fifteen per cent of its population.—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Arguably, such destruction would be the most outsized achievement in human history: the total landmass of the moon is about the same as Asia.—David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for landmass
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