How to Use landform in a Sentence
landform
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The landform’s tip is just two miles from mainland Ukraine.
—Lauren Tierney, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
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There were no pipes at the same location Oct. 8, and the spit, or beach landform, could not be seen.
—Peter Alexander, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
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The birds are born with that knowledge, maybe tied to the Earth’s magnetic field and landforms.
—Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2019
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Silt from these glaciers has piled up in mounds large enough to become their own landforms, here called the Loess Hills.
—Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 29 July 2019
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These landforms act as a buffer, protecting the mainland from the storms that blow in off the Atlantic Ocean.
—Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
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This was the first of many useful lessons about the difference between studying the landform from space and studying it from the ground.
—Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
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There’s no landform on Earth that’s as inhospitable as space.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
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When magma becomes too much to handle, gases will not be able to exit the landform.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
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The landform, accentuated by the glow of fall foliage, was a large sand dune complex.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
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This means that the leeward side of these landforms is usually drier and often protected from the high wind.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
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The barrier islands are landforms that developed from the buildup of tidal sand deposits.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
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Other famous Yosemite landforms such as Half Dome were also created by the process.
—CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
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The county is just one of the many public agencies paying to prevent the landform from collapsing into the Cuyahoga River.
—Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 8 June 2022
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Despite the differences, similar landforms still form, although much less is known about the surface of Titan.
—Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
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The change settles an issue first raised last Fourth of July by state wildlife officials and other environmental groups that changes to the landform in Lewis Bay have put the barge too close to nesting grounds.
—Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
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Caves, though notorious for being the site of many a B-grade horror movie, feature some of the world's most stunning landforms — and some of its quirkiest natural oddities.
—Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
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Then the existing metal railing surrounding Sue and its landform will be removed.
—Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
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Dinosaurs lived all over Pangea, the original massive landform of the world, and eventually spread apart as the continents began to separate.
—Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
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Powerful lobbies have tried to ravage entire landforms treated as gods.
—K A Shaji, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
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Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State.
—Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
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Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State.
—Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
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Of particular interest is a possible mud volcano — a type of landform that no Mars rover has visited before.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 20 May 2021
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The Newfoundland and Labrador park is a must-visit for travelers who are interested in hiking and boating through some of Canada’s most interesting landforms.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
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Big, restless eddies unobscured by trees, landforms and botanical distractions propel ravens, turkey vultures and hawks skyward to glide in loose, lazy loops.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
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The city itself is definitely described as architecture, but it’s supposed to look like a natural landform.
—Terrence Russell, WIRED, 20 July 2010
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Instead of being composed fully of granitic rock, researchers reanalyzed old Magellan data and posited that these landforms could be made of basaltic lava.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2020
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Volcano tourism is the exploration and study of volcanic and geothermal landforms, including visits to dormant and extinct volcanic regions, according to an entry in the 2016 edition of the Encyclopedia of Tourism.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2019
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Some landforms, such as certain crater pits, could offer radiation protection to astronauts, and sites on the lunar far side that are shielded from Earth’s radio noise would be especially well suited to hosting telescopes.
—Adam Mann, Scientific American, 26 June 2019
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In addition to these obvious behemoths, dozens of smaller, much less crowded lakes are scattered across the dynamic landform in Coconino National Forest.
—Mare Czinar, azcentral, 5 June 2020
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The process has resulted in formal Crown apologies, multimillion-dollar compensation packages and power-sharing agreements over waterways and landforms, such as the one that governs the Waikato River.
—Saphora Smith, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
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