How to Use archipelago in a Sentence

archipelago

noun
  • The island lies to the west of the rest of the Andaman archipelago.
    Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Coral stone sourced from the archipelago lines the floors.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
  • Oil Nut Bay spans 400 acres on the third-largest island of the archipelago.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2022
  • It’s now common to see herds sunning on the banks of the archipelago.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2022
  • But for the most part, the archipelago was home to a plethora of these ancient flying beasts.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Ponta do Sol is on the southern coast of Madeira, the main island of the Portuguese archipelago of the same name.
    Susana Ferreira, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In recent decades, the archipelagoes have ascended to the heavens.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Source: Todd Miller The archipelago’s clear waters and coral reefs are world class.
    Todd Miller, Contributor, CNBC, 31 July 2024
  • An hour later, the sun breaks through, dappling the lake and lighting up the archipelago.
    Brian Clark, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Tomaic is from the Canary Islands, the archipelago off the coast of West Africa.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Cabo Verde is an island archipelago off the coast of Africa.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025
  • From Bodø, the best option for drivers is the daily car ferry to Moskenes at the western end of the archipelago.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The archipelago of islands in Bocas del Toro, Panama, are home to this gem of rental.
    Shannon Sharpe, Architectural Digest, 28 May 2025
  • The archipelago's largest town, Longyearbyen, is one of the northernmost places in the world where people still live.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Some of the spots are known — but others could be considered secret gems, tucked along the the 120-mile archipelago.
    Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The 15-island archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, the Westman Islands, is home to the largest colony of puffins in the world.
    Michelle Stansbury, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The ship will sail around the Ecuadorian archipelago throughout the year.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
  • It will be located on an island of the same name to the country's west, and is part of an archipelago of 90 islands.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 22 Apr. 2025
  • So did the seeds of a western hemlock, the species that dominates the forest in this archipelago.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The war was over Argentina’s seizure of the Falklands, a windswept archipelago off the coast of South America.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The six floating wetlands will form a kind of archipelago of islands along the river.
    Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The storm currently carries winds of 65 mph and is located off the Azores, the archipelago in the mid-Atlantic.
    Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The archipelago, which is made up of over 1,100 coral islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is the lowest lying nation in the world.
    Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Averøy island with the mainland by way of causeways and eight bridges across an archipelago.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe one day, many years from now, there would be no humans at all in the Japanese archipelago.
    Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The volcano, the most active on the archipelago, is wreaking havoc on the island of Luzon.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 June 2023
  • The boat and crew would now thread through the Northeast Passage and aim to meet the men in two and a half months on the far side of the ice cap, in the waters north of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
    Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The storm blew out into the South China Sea on Sunday, leaving a trail of destruction in a large swath of the archipelago.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Odette killed 405 people across the archipelago and left Nay Palad in ruins.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
  • Yet this small archipelago off Scotland’s west coast was inhabited for thousands of years.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025

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