How to Use topography in a Sentence

topography

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  • There were also shots of us in the desert, and that kind of topography was in Breaking Bad.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • Because of the topography of the site, Dylan and team used the natural contours of the land to guide the project.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The Greenfields enjoy the area’s topography, which includes parklands full of wildlife and a tidal creek that runs to the beach.
    — Cecilie Rohwedder, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
  • But by and large, the ancient topography is still there.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Given the topography, Cundy will cancel trips if there's even a hint of rain in the narrow canyons of Zion.
    — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Cars, trains, and buses make the topography change at a speed the mind comprehends.
    — Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This jagged topography can melt faster than flatter parts of the ice shelf’s belly.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This path is one of the few in the park that dips below the crater’s rim, traveling for 11 miles across a topography unlike anything else on the planet.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 Sep. 2022
  • That fact, combined with the topography, makes the area ideal for such a project, officials said.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
  • This map bowed out the equator in an attempt to replicate the topography of a sphere and avoid stretching out areas far from the equator.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Right that must map out the topography of the Creative Society in the 21st century.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
  • Further, much of that topography has been ravaged by decades or more of strip mining.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Propelled largely by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the number of launches here has not only increased, but the topography of the place has changed.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • And the story remains written into the roughness and topography of the living rock.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
  • New charts will have to be prepared of the entire coast as its marine topography has been completely changed.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Extolling the virtues of topography maps and water tables.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Where the rain falls, how much falls, the topography of the land, the local stormwater infrastructure, and the state of any rivers or streams in the area are also important factors.
    — Sarah Raza, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • If the Moon had a topography like Earth, people thought, it might very well be inhabited.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
  • Death Valley, as its name suggests, is sweltering—it’s known as the hottest place on Earth thanks to its desert climate and the local topography.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
  • There are homes below, schools and parks and hospitals, the topography of an entire life, buried under the rubble.
    — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Aerial shots capture the texture and topography of the landscape.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And there’s lots of topography in a collection, just like there is in a composition.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 19 June 2023
  • Everything else is up for grabs: the length of the course, the width of playing corridors, the size of the fairway and putting surface, the texture of the grass, the shape and location of any sand bunkers or lakes, the topography and the setting.
    — Bradley S. Klein, wsj.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • On those large canvases, Bowling homes in on the textures of topography.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • From the expansive terrace of the main building, views stretch out to the glittering blue of the Mediterranean Sea, and on a clear day, beyond to the rugged topography of the Saronic Islands.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The conditions, Falk said, can be further boiled down to three things: weather, fuels and topography.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
  • With mortality as support and a gray cloud lowering in the sky, the task of creation is set within a vast topography where land meets sea.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • And the color palette was taken directly from the state’s unique topography.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • The Exchange’s pair of buildings and the canopy of solar panels above them echo the island’s undulating topography.
    — Developing Governors Island, Curbed, 11 May 2023
  • Fashion is about storytelling, and Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa, felt like the perfect fit with its unique topography: cinematic dunes, endless white sand beaches, and rich volcanic areas.
    — Martha Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024

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