How to Use terra incognita in a Sentence

terra incognita

noun

• All of which is to say, Sunday will be terra incognita.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• For the most part, these companies were treading on terra incognita.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• Unlike most of Europe and the U.S., Canada was still largely terra incognita in the late 19th century.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2019
• Unlike most of Europe and the U.S., Canada was still largely terra incognita in the late 19th century.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• The idea of terra incognita exerts a powerful pull at this moment.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• California was terra incognita to the tight fraternity of fliers on the East Coast and in Europe.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• News headlines and online posts continue to refer to North Sentinel as one of the most isolated places in the world, perhaps the last true terra incognita on Earth.
  — Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• An army of radioastronomy projects small and large is now trying to chart this terra incognita.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2019
• Even before statehood, in 1850, first Spain and then Mexico tried to govern their terra incognita from thousands of miles away.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
• The unknown in a life is still a gigantic terra incognita toward which every soul can make its pilgrimage.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
• At that time the neighborhood wasn’t even residentially zoned, much less dotted with stores, and both men recall friends shaking their heads at the terra incognita of West 20th Street.
  — Christopher Bollen, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022
• That takes you into a really terra incognita of social change.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 18 May 2018
• Globe makers had traditionally left the other 90 degrees a blank terra incognita, or marked it as all ocean.
  — Michael Blanding, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2017
• So even though the Pliocene gives us some general sense of the world to come, we may well be headed for terra incognita, climatologically speaking.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2015
• But for climbers in the first half of the 20th century, limited by rudimentary tools and techniques, El Capitan was terra incognita.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The acronym stands for Here Be Dragons, an old cartographer’s shorthand for terra incognita.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2022
• But a Spanish prep school is seductive terra incognita.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
• Lost in a subterranean terra incognita, the explorer might lie somewhere under track 12.
  — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
• Detroit isn’t terra incognita for coders and engineers: Ford and GM already employ thousands of developers here, and younger techies are already reshaping the city on the surface.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Fortune, 1 June 2022
• The inner lives of adolescents are always terra incognita, especially in this unique moment.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 15 May 2021
• To most of the Taliban, Kabul is terra incognita—a cosmopolitan enclave in an otherwise rural, and deeply traditional, country.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The surprise that initially greeted this entrenched polarization reinforces, all too well, the thrust of the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: that the true terra incognita is outside of town.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• But for thousands of children my son’s age — those in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten — elementary school itself is terra incognita.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• For most developers and investors—many of whom have made billions over their careers selling houses and condos the old-fashioned way—real estate’s potential crypto new normal is still terra incognita as well.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• The logician Kurt Gödel proved the existence of such mathematical terra incognita nearly a century ago.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
• And then, Southern California was terra incognita — a new, unsettling and unsettled place that made newcomers nervous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• Our pilots gently deposit us, and the biologists vanish into terra incognita.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• These women are pursuing truth writ small, personally, looking for it in daring performances — not of national heroes but of themselves, this fecund terra incognita.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Women were long considered too burdensome to belong in terra incognita and until relatively recently were all but banned from polar travel.
  — Emily Raboteau, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2020
• Experiencing that terra incognita privately is the promise of Ultima Thule Lodge.
  — Jen Murphy, Town & Country, 18 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024