Sentence examples for land shaped from inspiring English sources

An hour after takeoff, we flew over our home in far northern Maine, a land shaped by ice sheets, which has in turn shaped us.

But here on the Gove peninsula, this is also a land shaped by mining, most recently since behemoth Rio Tinto bought into the area in 2007.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND Originally named Woodlawn Heights, to differentiate it from the graveyard next door, the neighborhood is squeezed into a quarter of a square mile of land shaped something like a shoe.

At the intersection of Twelfth Street and Greenwich Avenue, in the West Village, lies a small parcel of land shaped like a pizza slice, with Seventh Avenue as the crust.

The experience of this generosity, repeated as long as I bicycled through private land, shaped my image of our country far more than the sights of mountains, rivers and vast plains.

They are taught to see themselves as inhabitants of a land shaped by a history of suffering, a sense of hostile encirclement, and a do-or-die insistence on survival.

Ice flows and covers the land, shapes the continent's coastlines, controls its environment, barricades its entrances and stores its ancient history.

The practice of cultivating to leave ridges and furrows on the contour without any additional land shaping was discussed in Section 4.2.

They talk about concepts like land shape and symbology and information design.

The Keystone students relate to land very differently than we do in the US, and I'm particularly interested in how these differing relationships to land shape the treatment of it.

As I aged, I learned that there was much more to a forest than trees, and I began to glimpse the extraordinary symbiotic connections between soil, land shape, weather, senescence, decay, propagation, seeds and roots, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals, including humans.