How to Use landmass in a Sentence

landmass

noun

• In the Antarctic, the pole is covered by a vast landmass.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• At the center of this polar landmass, the ice can be up to 2 miles thick.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• About how much of the Earth's landmass is covered with glacial ice?
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• At this point, the storm is headed to our north, which means the large-scale wind flow around it is off the landmass.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• All of this suggested that there was a large landmass in the center of the polar sea.
  — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2016
• Still, most of the park is non-sequoia-centric landmass.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2022
• The landmass was already covered in ice two miles thick.
  — Daniel Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
• The Allies, who were in control of all the major landmasses that lined the ocean, had the upper hand.
  — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Today, there are 136 districts in the city, covering about a fourth of the city’s landmass.
  — Hal Dardick, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• After the last human died, the landmass kept on rising.
  — Vincent Ialenti, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2021
• The four northern islands would have been a single landmass (shown above in red).
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• The Upper Peninsula makes up 30% of the state's landmass and stretches across two time zones.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018
• About 20 percent of the world's landmass is made of karst landscapes, with China boasting the largest sinkhole in the world.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
• Coastal provinces and cities account for a small fraction of its landmass, but more than half of its GDP.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Here all continents unite to form a large landmass stretching from pole to pole.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• For much of the past year, the world’s largest democracy—with a population of some 1.4 billion living on a landmass a third the size of the U.S.—escaped the worst.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 4 May 2021
• All the way at the Earth’s other pole is another landmass of tundra, the world’s second largest desert.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Marina Barrage, the first reservoir to open in the city center, can catch water from a sixth of the city’s landmass and stands next to a 1,000-foot bridge.
  — Alec Appelbaum, Newsweek, 30 May 2016
• The ice sheet primarily rests on the Antarctic landmass, whereas sea ice refers to ice that forms over the ocean.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• India’s landmass is the largest in South Asia, and its climates range from blazing deserts to frigid mountains.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• India alone is more than five times larger than Ukraine by landmass.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• The same water will hit some different landmass of the city and cause immense damage.
  — Nikhil S Dixit, Quartz India, 14 Aug. 2019
• The British Isles were once connected to Europe by a low-lying landmass.
  — Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2020
• East Island isn't the first landmass engulfed by ring sea levels.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
• Was it covered by landmass at some point in the far distant past, keeping more heat inside?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2021
• The Keys’ landmass is made of ancient, fossilized reef, and some of its polyps and striations were visible through the grass.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Wired, 5 Apr. 2022
• Laird grew up on nearby Smith Island, a small landmass split by the Maryland-Virginia state line.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Russia is the world's largest nation by landmass, more than twice the size of the continental United States.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
• Rather than simply adding new routes and landmass in an update, Zwift will tease the changes throughout September.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Across the Eurasian landmass, Washington’s enemies are joining hands.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024