How to Use Amazonian in a Sentence

Amazonian

adjective
  • Many Amazonian people, men much more than women, adorn themselves with paint.
    — Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2023-12-13
  • Like most Amazonian cities, the town depends on federal tax transfers just to pay its bills.
    — Mac Margolis, NPR, 2024-05-12
  • The remains were found along with a mantle of blue and brown feathers, which are believed to come from an Amazonian bird.
    — Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 2025-04-30
  • About three quarters of the Amazonian population live in towns and cities.
    — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 2024-02-01
  • White bellbirds fill the Amazonian soundscape with a clatter of strange, clanging sounds.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2023-10-17
  • In some places, like an Amazonian rainforest, trees might block almost all sunlight from hitting the earth.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2023-10-09
  • In recent years, lidar has been a vital tool for discovering traces of ancient Amazonian cities.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-01-12
  • Verónica Moscoso tells a story inspired by an Amazonian legend.
    — Jake Richardson, The Mercury News, 2025-03-10
  • Its Amazonian period began some 2.9 billion years ago and extends to the present.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 2023-05-11
  • Rodrigues, a social worker for the Amazonian city of Igarapé-Miri, was here only to check in.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2023-11-20
  • Yes, Tom gave an Amazonian tree frog a Japanese name, which explains an awful lot about Tom.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2025-01-30
  • But in the film, Amazonian jungles are portrayed like a playground, and Hope comes dangerously close to seeming like a pet.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 2025-01-17
  • His Balmain army, a cast of luminous Amazonian women, sent shockwaves down the runway.
    — Killian Wright-Jackson, Essence, 2023-12-01
  • Tarte's eyebrow pencil is spiked with Amazonian clay to provide a soft matte finish and minimize oiliness throughout the day.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 2024-10-26
  • For dessert there’s ice cream made with the Amazonian fruit lucuma and crema volteada, a Peruvian flan mixed with pisco and drizzled with chili-wine sauce.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 2025-06-06
  • Its slanted exterior walls snake out onto the sidewalk like the buttress roots of an Amazonian tree rendered in the white plaster of a Baroque church.
    — Michael Snyder Ana Topoleanu, New York Times, 2023-11-08
  • They’re designed to support you while walking, commuting, or running errands with an Amazonian rubber and foam insole that cushions your feet.
    — Nicol Natale, People.com, 2024-11-29
  • Palacio de Samaniego puts you in the heart of Rioja (albeit with Indonesian and Amazonian art on the walls—why not?).
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 2023-04-11
  • Their beats continue to resonate far and wide, inspiring a new wave of artists who draw from their pioneering melodies to keep the vibrant tradition of Amazonian cumbia thriving.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 2025-04-21
  • The majority came from the Pacific coast, the Amazonian lowlands, Ecuador and Chile.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2023-07-26
  • After a small plane crashed last year in the remote Amazonian jungle, killing all adults on board, the only survivors were four indigenous children aged between 11 months and 13 years old.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2024-10-17
  • Colombia is home to some of the most biodiverse lands on the planet: mountainous coffee farms, arid desert canyons, low grasslands, Amazonian jungles, coastal rainforests, and beautiful beaches.
    — Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 2025-05-15
  • Notes of white and black Breu resin, wild jungle flora, cypress root, and Brazilian vetiver places one straight into the Amazonian forest for a cozy, long-lasting scent sure to warm up any home.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 2024-11-01
  • For Silva, who was born and raised to a family of rubber tappers in the remote Amazonian state of Acre, this is the next step on a lifelong journey of Amazon protection.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 2025-05-09
  • This sleek Veja sneaker is plenty comfortable for city exploring, with soles made from wild Amazonian rubber and a sustainable lining made from recycled polyester and organic cotton.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
  • As consumer demand for ethical alternatives increases, this Amazonian innovation proves that sustainability and style can go hand in hand.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Government officials already fear that the deforestation rate may increase next year as the Amazonian city of Belem prepares to host the annual U.N. climate talks.
    — Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-11-07
  • The researchers found that 93% of those from the Amazonian region would need a dose lower than the standard one, whereas only 69% of those from the Andean region of Peru would need a dose reduction.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 2024-08-13
  • The artist, whose name is Luis Alfonso Palacios II, wore brown cowboy boots made with Amazonian fish leather while astride a horse at a 150-acre, 125-year-old ranch and rodeo arena in Lebanon, Tennessee.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers recruited 3,517 adult study participants from 12 countries, including two Indigenous Amazonian communities, the Shipibo in Peru and the Shiwiar in Ecuador.
    — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025

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