Sentence examples for landmass a from inspiring English sources
During most of the Devonian Period, North America, Greenland, and Europe were united into a single Northern Hemisphere landmass, a minor supercontinent called Laurussia or Euramerica.
Among the technically more advanced sedentary civilizations on both edges of the Eurasian landmass, a different kind of cavalry seems to have emerged shortly after 1000 bc.
In Greenland, local politicians are worried that the upgrading of an American radar station, as part of the NMD network, will make the vast, icy landmass a target for enemy attack.
The showstopper is "Landmass," a life-size replication of a snow-covered rock ledge topped by a real pine tree, which fulfills the panorama artist's dream of incorporating actual space.
Worsley's wife Joanna said, "Henry achieved his Shackleton Solo goals: of raising over £100,000 for the Endeavour Fund, to help his wounded colleagues, and so nearly completing the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass, a crossing made, under exceptionally difficult weather conditions".
Through phases of complex uplift and accretion along the Gondwanan landmass, a convergent margin ensued with associated back-arc volcanism within Antarctica for at least the Permian to mid-Jurassic time, which subsequently evolved into a passive margin, giving the Chatham Rise its distinctive finger-like shape.
But if you live on one of the world's other major landmasses, a-ha are a certifiably big deal.
Tropical cyclones are considered to have made a direct strike to a landmass when a tropical cyclone passes close enough to a landmass that areas inside the radius of maximum wind are experienced on land.
After all, it's from Australia, a country so laid back it's not so much a landmass as a gigantic lilo on the Pacific, and where the only thing taken seriously is outdoor cooking.
The country's survival as a landmass is a triumph of nature-niggle.
With 25 communities totalling almost 32,000 people spread out over an area the size of Western Europe, Nunavut is a "big landmass with a small population".
