How to Use archipelagic in a Sentence

archipelagic

adjective
  • The archipelagic country is hit by about 20 severe storms a year, many of them deadly.
    — Felipe Villamor, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2017
  • However, posting a vote in the world’s largest archipelagic nation is a huge effort.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Men from neighboring archipelagic countries like Guam and Fiji, as well as host Samoa, were lining up to race the 100 meters.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • For the Maldives, an archipelagic country in the Indian Ocean, climate change already poses an existential threat.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The archipelagic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe are mere grace notes on the vast score of the Atlantic, perched near where the equator and the zero longitude meridian cross paths.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Palawan, Philippines Voted the number one island in the world by Travel + Leisure three years in a row, this archipelagic country sets the standard on honeymoon backdrops.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The Philippines kept close watch this week on a Chinese fisheries research vessel transiting through its archipelagic waters on an indirect route to the Indian Ocean. Footage released by the Philippine Coast Guard shows the ship, the Song Hang, sailing through the Sulu Sea, east of Palawan.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Within 20 minutes of the explosion, four-foot tsunami waves cascaded over Tongatapu, the archipelagic Kingdom of Tonga’s main island.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • An opposition candidate widely seen as pro-China won a runoff election to be the next president of the Maldives, marking a significant loss for Indian influence in the archipelagic nation.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Many of the protesters came to Honiara, on the island of Guadalcanal, from Malaita, the most populous island in the archipelagic nation, about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Indonesia, an archipelagic nation of 270 million people, has experienced multiple aviation disasters as its population has become wealthier and air travel has increased.
    — Feliz Solomon and Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This three-bedroom villa stands over a turquoise lagoon off the island of Medhufaru in Maldives, the archipelagic state comprising almost 1,200 islands in the north-central Indian Ocean.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022

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