How to Use antarctic in a Sentence

antarctic

adjective

• The group is involved in Antarctic exploration.
• One story that refused to die was that the Nazis had a secret Antarctic base.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• Dr. Sladen's research helped reveal the intrigue of Antarctic wildlife.
  — Philly.com, 5 June 2017
• There are visions of Antarctic tundra, mirror balls and a dance floor filled with purple smoke, swags of red velvet.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• Columbia scientists have spent the past two Antarctic summers flying over the Ross Ice Shelf, which helps to slow the flow of land ice into the sea.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
• In the Antarctic summer of 2016, scientists observed a melt event on the frozen continent that could be a harbinger for things to come.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• Great cracks are even appearing in ancient Antarctic ice shelves.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 May 2017
• Just last month, researchers released an atlas of more than 200 images from the Arctic and Antarctic seafloor showing the tracks of ancient glaciers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• In 1964, his discovery of DDT residue in Antarctic penguins and seals testified to the pesticide’s vast reach.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 June 2017
• So technically, all those Antarctic claims are still equally valid.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2017
• Ultimately, expanding Antarctic sea ice could help keep carbon dioxide in the ocean and out of the atmosphere.
  — Conor Purcell, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• Studies also look at the eyesight and sleep cycles of those who endure the four months of darkness that characterizes Antarctic winters.
  — Philip Toledano, National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2016
• The Antarctic ice sheet is the world’s largest reserve of frozen water, meaning its collapse would contribute more to the rise of the seas than the melting of glaciers elsewhere or the collapse of Greenland’s ice sheet, Climate Central said.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• Sladen’s research helped reveal the intrigue of Antarctic wildlife including the Adelie penguin, which is smaller — standing roughly 2 feet tall — than the better known Emperor penguin.
  — Emily Langer, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• This area includes the point at which the Indian subcontinent and the Australian and Antarctic continents separated during the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.
  — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 26 June 2017

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