Examples of landmass in a Sentence

the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass

Recent Examples on the Web That’s a verdant expanse equivalent to roughly seven times the footprint of Utah’s capital or slightly more than the entire dry landmass of Salt Lake County. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022 Now, the Asian landmass, including India, cools rapidly, and forms a large area of high pressure, while the oceans, which cool at a slower rate, form low pressure zones. — Anusha Krishnan, Quartz, 30 May 2022 The crop was so popular that by 2019 nearly 10% of Indonesia’s sprawling landmass was covered by it, according to government statistics. — Jon Emont, WSJ, 7 May 2022 Glulam is manufactured at industrial scale from the spruce and pine forests that cover about a third of Norway’s landmass, including the slopes around Brumunddal, from which the timber for Mjøstårnet was harvested. — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022 Seattle has the largest landmass occupied by single family homes of any city in the country, at 60%. — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022 About 323 million years ago, a continent called Gondwana, which contains what is now Africa and South America slammed into a landmass called Laurasia, which had North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 29 Dec. 2021 That agency oversees one-tenth of our nation’s landmass, yet Pendley—who has written several openly racist and homophobic op-eds—has been working toward the sale of those lands since at least the early 1980s. — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2020 Finland’s membership would bring the alliance closer to Russia’s Kola Peninsula, a strategic landmass some 110 miles east of the border where Russia keeps ballistic missile submarines and stores nuclear warheads. — Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 19 May 2022 See More

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