Sentence examples for closest land from inspiring English sources
The closest land mass is Canada, although, politically, Greenland has always been associated with Europe.
The damage was particularly heavy here because Ayukawahama sits on the tip of a peninsula that was the closest land to the huge undersea earthquake 13 days ago.
The slick was floating slowly westward, about 115 miles south of New Orleans and 75 miles south of the closest land, and did not pose an immediate threat to coastal areas, Coast Guard spokesman Jason Neubauer said.
This contributes to a distribution pattern where the rights went to the closest land and the lefts possibly headed for the open ocean or perhaps to more deserted beaches.
Caroline Island is among the most remote islands on earth –230 km from the closest land at Flint Island, 1500 km from the nearest permanent settlement on Kiritimati, 4200 km from the Kiribati capital of Tarawa, and 5100 km from the nearest continental land in North America.
These jets give the United States its closest land-based strike capability of the war in Afghanistan.
With the closest landing strip about 18 miles away, everyone completes the trip to Montezuma by road.
On Thursday morning, insurgents fired two rockets toward the site of the jirga, the closest landing just over half a mile away, wounding one person, The Associated Press reported, citing the Afghan Interior Ministry and a Kabul police official.
To get a sense of how these large brains evolved, Michael McGowen, an evolutionary biologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and his colleagues compared the dolphin's genome with two of its closest land-loving, small-brained relatives, the cow and the horse, as well as the dog.
The town was most conveniently situated as the closest landing point from England, and adjacent to the low-country marts.
Turkish Airlines, the last foreign airline still flying to Libya, suspended flights on January 6th; Egypt and Tunisia have closed land borders.
