How to Use Amazonian in a Sentence

Amazonian

adjective

• Rodrigues, a social worker for the Amazonian city of Igarapé-Miri, was here only to check in.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Palacio de Samaniego puts you in the heart of Rioja (albeit with Indonesian and Amazonian art on the walls—why not?).
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
• Like most Amazonian cities, the town depends on federal tax transfers just to pay its bills.
  — Mac Margolis, NPR, 12 May 2024
• About three quarters of the Amazonian population live in towns and cities.
  — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
• White bellbirds fill the Amazonian soundscape with a clatter of strange, clanging sounds.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• In some places, like an Amazonian rainforest, trees might block almost all sunlight from hitting the earth.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The majority came from the Pacific coast, the Amazonian lowlands, Ecuador and Chile.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• Its slanted exterior walls snake out onto the sidewalk like the buttress roots of an Amazonian tree rendered in the white plaster of a Baroque church.
  — Michael Snyder Ana Topoleanu, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Many Amazonian people, men much more than women, adorn themselves with paint.
  — Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Its Amazonian period began some 2.9 billion years ago and extends to the present.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
• Amazon Music doesn’t seem to be ditching any of its songs quite yet—or banning password sharing—but clearly the Amazonian overlords want to squeeze a little more out of the platform.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• His Balmain army, a cast of luminous Amazonian women, sent shockwaves down the runway.
  — Killian Wright-Jackson, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
• The river near Leticia is dotted with giant Amazonian water lily pads that span up to 10 feet in diameter.
  — Natalie Meade, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
• The collection was intended for an Amazonian woman who is courageous, confident, and very much in control of her life.
  — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 4 May 2024
• In recent years, lidar has been a vital tool for discovering traces of ancient Amazonian cities.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• However, over a third of the sample had some Amazonian genetic background.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• The children survived for 40 days in the deep Amazonian rainforest using their Indigenous knowledge of the jungle and the daring national effort to rescue them.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 9 May 2024
• The Amazonian white clay helps clear pores and impurities, while the aloe barbadensis helps soothe any existing redness or inflammation skin.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the past, researchers identified Amazonian earthworks by using high-resolution satellite data, but that could only work in areas where trees had been cleared.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• This discovery of this new treefrog highlights how many parts of the Amazonian region are still poorly explored and studied from a biodiversity perspective.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• The small Amazonian community of Tapurucuara, for instance, is about 20 kilometers (15 miles) from Mitú.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 30 May 2023
• Along with its oil-absorbing properties à la Amazonian clay, this mask is spiked with ingredients like oatmeal and aloe to soothe irritation and moisturize your skin.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 26 Nov. 2023
• Like the remote Amazonian territory of Vale do Javari, the cafe’s aesthetics and operation were largely unchanged.
  — Linze Rice, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• What distinguishes an energy drink from other soft drinks is its high level of caffeine, along with additives like taurine (an amino acid), B-12 (a vitamin) and guarana extract (from an Amazonian fruit).
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 8 June 2024
• As its name suggests, this formula is enhanced with Amazonian clay to help draw out impurities and offer a mattifying finish.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Silva, the daughter of an Amazonian rubber tapper, is a bespectacled woman with an ethereal presence who has spent decades leading efforts to safeguard Brazil’s wilderness.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• New roads and infrastructure are disrupting the river system that floods Peru’s Amazonian lowlands.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Juma, an Amazonian Indigenous tribe, seemed destined for extinction.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, Teresa De Miguel, and André Penner, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
• With its delicate purple flowers and glossy leaves, the Amazonian plant was poised to become the new frontier of ornamental gardening, the fair’s organizers proclaimed, handing out hyacinths to anyone who wanted them.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Furthermore, the preference of Amazonian growers to maintain diverse types of cassava makes the Amazon a natural repository for genetic diversity.
  — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024