How to Use the North Pole in a Sentence

the North Pole

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Definition of the North Polenext
  • Nowadays, kids can reach the big guy in the North Pole by phone.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • That means the equator barely gets any sunlight and the North Pole faces right at the Sun.
    — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In the books, Harold goes on a treasure hunt, creates a fairy tale, visits the North Pole, and travels to the sky and the circus.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 22 May 2024
  • Kohler studies the melting glaciers of Svalbard, which is a group of islands near the North Pole.
    — David Schechter, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This edible weed is so hardy it can even be found in Greenland and near the North Pole.
    — Kelsey Ogletree, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
  • Asking when time began would be like asking what’s north of the North Pole.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • During the solstice, the North Pole is tilted about 23.4 degrees towards the sun.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2024
  • As the crew concludes its mission in the Beaufort Sea, the sub heads north before surfacing at the North Pole.
    — Kenny Holston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • They're known as the aurora borealis around the North Pole and the aurora australis around the South Pole.
    — John Helton, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • But because the earth is an oblate spheroid, the sea level at the Equator is some 14 miles farther from the center of the earth than the sea level at the North Pole.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Some make it through the field and get trapped; those particles find escape where the magnetic field is weakest at the North Pole and South Pole.
    — Randi Selvey, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Snow buntings are the northernmost passerine (perching) bird and have been reported at the North Pole.
    — Richard B. Karel, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • While Santa and his elves are back at the North Pole—already working on next year’s gifts—Amazon is full to the brim with end-of-the-year leftovers for savings up to 64% off.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Tonight Santa Claus is making his annual trip from the North Pole to deliver presents to children all over the world.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The archipelago of Svalbard is halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Winter Park’s weather by far outshines the North Pole, with average December highs in the mid-70s.
    — Karen Cicero, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of an uneventful trip from Beijing to London by way of the North Pole, the plane mysteriously lost power to both engines.
    — Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
  • Michael Paterniti, a contributing writer for the magazine, is at work on a book about the discovery of the North Pole.
    — Michael Paterniti, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • When the train pulls out of Durango Depot en route to the North Pole, caroling and general merriment abound.
    — Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There’s also another factor to consider: the polar vortex, a belt of strong winds which sits extremely high in the stratosphere – above the level of the jet stream – around the North Pole.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Every winter, sea ice grows in the Arctic Ocean, radiating out from the dense ice pack surrounding the North Pole to a ragged edge, beyond which icebergs float freely.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Schneider already has ideas for all sorts of itineraries, from hot chocolate at the North Pole to wine tastings in Napa Valley, or any wine region in the world.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Therefore, Antarctic ice is more dynamic and difficult to classify compared to ice in the North Pole.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2024
  • If you were perched above the North Pole, looking down on the planet from space, Earth would seem to be turning counterclockwise, with the moon traveling in the same direction, just more slowly, Nichols says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Fittingly christened Iceman, the newcomer is tough enough to cruise at all latitudes and support its 146-foot mothership in the harshest of climates, from the North Pole to the South.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Not one to turn down an adventure, he got stranded in the North Pole for several days two years later when the Russian biplane carrying him and four others landed and partially sank through the ice.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • As children chart Santa’s journey from the North Pole on Norad, some adults are preoccupied with tracking of a less joyous sort: hunting down packages marked as delivered, yet nowhere to be found.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • It is commonly associated with the aurora borealis, the display of lights visible near the North Pole.
    — The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It is commonly associated with the aurora borealis, the display of lights visible near the North Pole.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • Everything's gone stop-motion in Abed's eyes, a hallucination requiring a therapeutic trip to the North Pole.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024

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