How to Use archipelagic in a Sentence

archipelagic

adjective

• The archipelagic country is hit by about 20 severe storms a year, many of them deadly.
  — Felipe Villamor, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• Men from neighboring archipelagic countries like Guam and Fiji, as well as host Samoa, were lining up to race the 100 meters.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Many of the protesters came to Honiara, on the island of Guadalcanal, from Malaita, the most populous island in the archipelagic nation, about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2021
• The average land elevation in the archipelagic state is just 6 feet 6 inches above mean sea level, and the water is rising at almost 0.2 inches each year.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Every corner of this archipelagic province in the Philippines is picturesque: the waters are clear and bright, the mountains are steep and striking, and the list of adventurous things to do is seemingly endless.
  — Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• Scattered between the novels are short stories that fill out Le Guin’s archipelagic world like small, previously unmapped islands.
  — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
• Another example of clean thinking in action is evident in the use of those archipelagic waterways for transport of excavated rock away from the island of Lovö.
  — William Steel, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2018
• This three-bedroom villa stands over a turquoise lagoon off the island of Medhufaru in Maldives, the archipelagic state comprising almost 1,200 islands in the north-central Indian Ocean.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Within 20 minutes of the explosion, four-foot tsunami waves cascaded over Tongatapu, the archipelagic Kingdom of Tonga’s main island.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• One of Mr. Joko’s main foreign policy goals is to transform Indonesia, an archipelagic nation of 250 million people, into a regional maritime power.
  — Joe Cochrane, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2016
• Beijing must understand that U.S. allies will vigorously contest any attempt to control the archipelagic straits between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
• Indonesia, an archipelagic nation of 270 million people, has experienced multiple aviation disasters as its population has become wealthier and air travel has increased.
  — Feliz Solomon and Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024