How to Use geographer in a Sentence

geographer

noun
  • The former geographer and lawyer starts from a place of not knowing.
    — Ivy Lerner-Frank, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Geologists own time in the same way that geographers own space.
    — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • The term was not invented by geographers but by a politician and the media.
    — Anne Trubek, Time, 3 Apr. 2018
  • But many geographers argue that the very idea of the local is rooted in fantasy.
    — Jennifer M. Bernstein, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • So geographers in Afric-maps / With savage-pictures fill their gaps.
    — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • At one point, there was an art historian, a biographer and a geographer on staff.
    — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But economists and geographers are now questioning what the nature of their success means for the rest of the country.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Larner, Cramer, the historian and the geographer did not vote for a name as part of board policy.
    — Andrew Michaels, Columbia Flier, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The geographers might have kept counting, turning their attention to the mainland, where even in the absence of water, islands abound.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Planey, the medical geographer, says that academics could learn how to write memos that politicians can understand in three minutes.
    — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
  • Using that book as their base, geographers Vale have made the same trip, observed the same landscape and taken pictures of the same locations.
    — Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Scientists and geographers broadly separate the Atlantic in terms of north and south.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • To cultural geographers like me, coins serve as vessels of passive and active public memory.
    — Seth T. Kannarr, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • As medical geographer Tom Koch has explained, Snow was hardly the first to use maps to study disease.
    — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
  • There geographer Jean-François Gravier detailed all the ways in which Paris sucked out the country’s resources.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The odds that the average human being will spend any amount of time in their life within ten feet of a king cobra or a geographer's cone snail, let alone experience the venom of one, are slim.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2017
  • When Ray Yaeger looks at maps of the sewer system serving the greater area, the University of Louisville health geographer sees veins in a body.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The charter initiative was launched six years ago in an effort to make cities greener, healthier, and wilder, says Raven-Ellison, a geographer.
    — Simon Ingram, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
  • It was first described by the ancient Greek geographer Strabo and Roman author Plinius.
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2018
  • But his tortuous route actually did link the two sides of the world, and geographers now credit Mackenzie and his maps with making breakthroughs in our knowledge of the subarctic.
    — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • That violence, as the geographer Blake Gumprecht recounts in his history of the river, was due, in part, to its extreme topography.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Leblanc-Jomphe, who trained as a geographer, leads me from the parking lot onto a sandy beach at the mouth of the harbor of Grande-Entrée, which is bracketed to the north and south by strips of dune.
    — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • Arab geographers first wrote about the islands in the tenth century, and in 1502, Vasco da Gama charted them on behalf of the Portuguese.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • Nordicity was coined by Louis-Edmond Hamelin, a Quebec geographer and linguist, in the 1960s.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Turkey’s announcement may not yet be backed up with hard facts, but its deposit remains one to watch, says Julie Klinger, a geographer at the University of Delaware.
    — Wired, 14 July 2022
  • The effort cost about $3 million and is decidedly temporary, said Mark Adams, a coastal geographer at the National Seashore.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Male names dominate the list of most common first names because there’s less variety in baby boy names than baby girl names, Census Bureau senior geographer Joshua Comenetz said in a report.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • The damage wrought by the hurricane, which the writer and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro chronicled in these pages in 2017, wasn’t the only disaster.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a Chadian environmental activist and geographer.
    — Aniebiet Ntui, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Subscribe now » Contributing Writer Sarah Melotte is a geographer and journalist whose work focuses on rural America.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026

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