Examples of landmass in a Sentence
the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
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Abu Dhabi is the biggest by landmass of the seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the second most populous after Dubai, while its main city is both the capital of the emirate and the wider UAE.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe.
—Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
Since 1850, it's lost two-thirds of its landmass to erosion and sea level rise.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
These tools lay undisturbed for millennia in sand deposits from an ancient landmass known as Thorney Island, which purportedly supported prehistoric communities, placing the foundation of the Parliament site much further back in time.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe.
—Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
Since 1850, it's lost two-thirds of its landmass to erosion and sea level rise.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
These tools lay undisturbed for millennia in sand deposits from an ancient landmass known as Thorney Island, which purportedly supported prehistoric communities, placing the foundation of the Parliament site much further back in time.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Landmass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landmass. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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landmass
noun
land·mass
-ˌmas 
: a large area of land
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