How to Use archipelago in a Sentence

archipelago

noun
  • Australia outsources this work to a string of island nations sometimes described as its gulag archipelago.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Last month, Lai held the first meeting of a civil defense committee aimed at keep the archipelago resilient in any emergency.
    Yian Lee and Philip Glamann / Bloomberg, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Megi, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on Monday, was the first storm to hit the archipelago this year.
    Akanksha Sharma, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In Lofoten archipelago, Norway, stockfish racks have become part of the landscape.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • Image These tricks and distortions of time are a feature of the archipelago.
    Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The island is isolated along the western edge of the archipelago.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 June 2022
  • The Swedish archipelago would be part of any such endeavor.
    Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But his real claim to fame came in 2015 when he was asked to train the kitchen staff of a restaurant in Palau, an archipelago of islands in Micronesia.
    Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The city is a hub for fishing and hunting, and for tourists who’ve come to see one of the world’s largest land carnivores, the omnivorous brown bears that roam the archipelago.
    WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Authorities have described the fire as the worst in decades on the Atlantic archipelago.
    Costas Kantouris and Elena Becatoros, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The archipelago of the Philippines lies in an arc south of Taiwan, and the bases there would be critical launch and resupply points in a war with China.
    Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Though they’re imported, the flowers have become a symbol of the Azores and grow throughout the archipelago.
    Andrew Nelson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The archipelago of Svalbard is halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
    Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Everyone wants to go to the Galapagos Islands, the 19-island archipelago and one of the most unique locations in the world.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The archipelago nation is home to over 10 million smallholder farmers and fisherfolk.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024

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