How to Use heat island in a Sentence

heat island

noun

• Urban areas with a lot of pavement and buildings – known as heat islands – can have temperatures well above the city’s average.
  — Brian Bossak, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
• What community doesn’t want a giant heat island of concrete buildings humming with low-frequency sound?
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026
• For example, for animals that have evolved to breed at a specific time of the year, urban heat islands can select for earlier breeding.
  — Daniel T. Blumstein, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
• We've been forced to scale back plans to expand access to greenspace in one of the city's most underserved neighborhoods that is severely impacted by urban heat island effect.
  — Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 June 2025
• The most noticeable temperature drop will be Thursday when temps get into the 30s away from Houston’s urban heat island.
  — Newsroom Meteorologist, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2026
• Without the cooling effect of trees, the urban heat island effect across the world’s cities would be twice as hot, a new study by The Nature Conservancy found.
  — Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
• As our research has shown, cities typically hold additional heat compared to surrounding rural locations because of the urban heat island.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
• Fans attending games will also be subject to the urban heat island effect, when major cities become significantly hotter than nearby rural areas.
  — Elias Burke, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• The Kansas City metro is not included in the advisory because the urban heat island may keep temperatures warmer, according to the weather service.
  — Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
• These heat islands, as they’re called, experience surface temperatures that far exceed outside ambient temperatures.
  — Sacoby Wilson, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
• Urban farms like Harlem Grown not only improve food security, but also climate resilience—lowering the carbon footprint of food production and reducing the effects of heat islands that cities are often prone to.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
• But in a heavily urbanized East Coast, especially New York City, temperatures could also feel hotter through the urban heat island effect.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• The heat spreads, contributing to what’s known as the urban heat island effect, said Vincent Cotrone, extension educator of urban forestry at Pennsylvania State University.
  — Aya Diab, Fortune, 23 May 2026
• Texas State climatologist John Nielson-Gammon told the Statesman this week that natural variability, observing site variance, urban heat island effect and overall weather variance factor into the change in gameday temperatures.
  — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
• In a city, the first 100 meters (328 feet) of earth act as a thermal sponge, soaking up heat from human activity—what Philipp Blum, a professor of engineering geology at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, calls the subsurface urban heat island.
  — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2026