How to Use topographic in a Sentence

topographic

adjective

• They were forced to puzzle over topographic maps so old that some dated to the Civil War.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• On the walls, blown-up pics of nearby wonders and topographic maps of the area point the way toward adventure.
  — Stephanie Granada, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Garmins can help if you get lost, too, with preloaded topographic maps.
  — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• The green matchsticks, placed at varying heights for topographic effect, served as a metaphor for trees.
  — D.w. Pine, Time, 15 Apr. 2021
• Unlike the lower sections of the tree, the bark here is smooth and seamless with a purple tint, and etched with fine lines like topographic contours.
  — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
• This region represents a topographic motor map of the various body parts controlled by the brain, from toes to feet to hands and so on all the way to lips and mouth.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• Carry detailed topographic maps and know how to read them.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• But the Windy City is, by and large, devoid of any real topographic variation.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• This is the Lost Coast, about 100 miles of marshy, distant topographic challenges that is the only place in the west to defeat ambitious highway builders.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• The sink, a topographic map of hardened scum, threatens to collapse on an ancient hamper.
  — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
• This is the first time that anyone has produced a topographic model using this equation.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
• The atmospheric waves were thought to be the result of winds passing over topographic features on the surface, a process that has been documented on the day side of Venus.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
• When used from a plane, millions of points are collected, resulting in a detailed topographic map of the landscape.
  — Gabriel D. Wrobel, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2020
• The same is true of regional effects caused by things like topographic features or islands.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
• That design process kicked off in April with topographic surveys and geotechnical field work at hundreds of damage sites around the county.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• The vibe is trippy, from the carpeting inspired by topographic maps to acid-bright murals of Western landscapes.
  — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Access topographic maps, track adventures and search for parks and trails within the app loaded with features.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 29 July 2021
• In the lab, Ikhrata pressed several buttons on a large topographic model of San Diego County.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• Scientists used the data to make a detailed topographic map.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Also there: mounds that were erected to add a little topographic interest for golfers.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Shaking is amplified by low-lying sandy sediments in Port-au-Prince, but also on some of Haiti’s hills and ridges due to a topographic effect.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
• Shaking is amplified by low-lying sandy sediments in Port-au-Prince, but also on some of Haiti's hills and ridges due to a topographic effect.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 1 May 2021
• The predictions are a product of A.I., which factors in weather and topographic data.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2021
• The new topographic data will then, in turn, help officials model how floodwaters could spill out of bayous and creeks and which areas are most likely to flood.
  — Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• Enable the topographic map layer to see more detail in the areas between landmarks, then download the map of your hiking area for offline viewing.
  — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• Fissures lack a lot of topographic relief, so picking them out in such profiles could be difficult.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2013
• For anyone who uses topographic map apps like Gaia GPS to navigate while hiking, this one’s for you.
  — Hannah Singleton, SELF, 22 Feb. 2022
• The researchers studied how water might move through the city by building a high-resolution topographic map, one that could show details as small as three meters across, or about 10 feet.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• Terms in stone wall science involve the size, shape, composition, source and arrangement of stones; the vertical and horizontal structures of tiers, courses and terminations; and their topographic settings on the landscape.
  — Robert M. Thorson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
• The accessory comes in eight designs, including a basic carbon black hue, a black-and-white topographic Yellowstone pattern, a shopper-favorite watercolor world map print, and the celestial, starry sky depiction.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024