How to Use archipelago in a Sentence

archipelago

noun
  • Bawah is the largest of the six islands in this tiny archipelago.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • What took you to the Swedish archipelago?
    — AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • The whole coast curved around us like a giant C—a huge bay that held the archipelago.
    — James Rebanks june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • But for the most part, the archipelago was home to a plethora of these ancient flying beasts.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The island lies to the west of the rest of the Andaman archipelago.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In recent decades, the archipelagoes have ascended to the heavens.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Get the best views on a boat tour around some of the archipelago's islands and secluded cays.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Averøy island with the mainland by way of causeways and eight bridges across an archipelago.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Landing with a splash, Bawah is the largest of the six islands in this tiny archipelago.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • An hour later, the sun breaks through, dappling the lake and lighting up the archipelago.
    — Brian Clark, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The landscape is one of low ridges and archipelagos of rocky islands.
    — Robert Finch june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • Witness the unique wildlife and beautiful views of this archipelago from the sea.
    — Jordan Harvey, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The six floating wetlands will form a kind of archipelago of islands along the river.
    — Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • More cities may join the archipelago of blue dots with no real power in Congress.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe one day, many years from now, there would be no humans at all in the Japanese archipelago.
    — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Rent a car to explore the archipelago—you’ll be near both Stockholm and the beaches for day trips.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 9 June 2026
  • On the ground in the archipelago, where new self-navigating cars are (sort of) taking the wheel.
    — Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Like most of those who crossed by boat to the archipelago this year, Diallo has been stuck on the islands for months.
    — Renata Brito, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • With just a dozen rooms and suites, Pine Cay is one of the archipelago's dreamiest resorts.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
  • Birders flock to the lodge for a chance to see some of the 778 bird species that have been spotted in the archipelago.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • So did the seeds of a western hemlock, the species that dominates the forest in this archipelago.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The archipelago of white sand beaches and serrated brown rock is about an hour from Muscat.
    — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The archipelago is revered as one of the best places to spot Brazil’s wildlife, both above and below the surface of the water.
    — Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Hundreds of flights were canceled and ferries and fishing boats remained in port as the storm crossed the archipelago.
    — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The island is isolated along the western edge of the archipelago.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 June 2022
  • Piled onto this archipelago and this big arid island was created.
    — Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The ship will sail around the Ecuadorian archipelago throughout the year.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The smaller islands of the archipelago are atolls, uplifts of the coral reefs, fringed by absurdly turquoise seas.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
  • Make sure to island-hop while in Palawan to get the full archipelago experience.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Oil Nut Bay spans 400 acres on the third-largest island of the archipelago.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2022

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