How to Use cartography in a Sentence

cartography

noun
  • She studied cartography in college.
  • Wine maps are some of the coolest-looking prints in all of cartography.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Even as those worlds leapt from the page to the screen, their cartography remained crucial.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But those massive datasets didn’t yield the kind of brain cartography that Tasic sought.
    — Amber Dance, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2026
  • And Russia is not the only country that has raised such a fuss over cartography.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • FRBs could give us a big leg up in our cosmic cartography efforts.
    — Duncan Lorimer, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Redrawing the map would require much more than fresh cartography.
    — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Whatever its historic value, no one seems to know who to credit for the crook cartography.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • Illinois is no stranger to creative cartography.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This concept truck from Jeep was designed with trail maintenance, cartography and cleanup in mind.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Over the past few years, Smith and his colleagues have built upon antigenic cartography by adding a third dimension to their maps.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The art of cartography, past and present, is an act of storytelling, a visual guide to a narrative or its point of departure.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Smith’s act of forensic cartography placed Schutz atop the Mendota.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
  • But the cost of digitizing the cartography of an entire country was more than one company could afford.
    — Bob Johnstone, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1993
  • Utah lawmakers are inviting the public to put their cartography skills to good use, and create maps for the once-a-decade redistricting process.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The rest would be in the hands of National Geographic’s own world-class cartography shop.
    — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2019
  • After walking me through the complete cartography of the human face in an anatomy textbook, one talked about boring my sinuses open wider with lasers.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Recognizing slave revolt as a species of warfare is the first step toward a new cartography of Atlantic slavery.
    — Vincent Brown, Time, 17 Jan. 2020
  • If Ocarina of Time and its ilk are guided safaris, Breath of the Wild is more like cartography.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2017
  • To make the expansion possible, Cadillac ramped up its cartography.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 11 June 2019
  • The original owner’s love of cartography influenced the design, so the home is organized around a long reflecting pool aligned due north.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 July 2024
  • Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked.
    — Melinda Laituri, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The maps in the exhibition date show the circumpolar region as far back as the 16th century -- when there were many more blank spots in the cartography.
    — Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Leggett said Cook’s voyages and cartography were significant achievements, but his brief stop in the area largely is not significant.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
  • During that time, the troops learn everything from marksmanship and cartography to radios and engineering.
    — Siobhán O'Grady and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Inside, a cartography of the empire’s carbon emissions since 1750 forces the viewer to reckon with the scale of the harm caused to both earth and people.
    — Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, seabed cartography was a scientific backwater.
    — Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • In this way, the diction of the poem mirrors the precise (but historically incorrect) and cold grammar of cartography.
    — Laura Da’ Victoria Chang, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Another big concept in Pynchon is maps, and cartography, and in a way, reading fiction creates an empathetic map.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Declarations of intent to run for the US presidency have a special kind of cartography.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020

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