How to Use landform in a Sentence

landform

noun
  • There’s no landform on Earth that’s as inhospitable as space.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The landforms at the preserve are remnants of glaciation.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Native grasses and great bunkering will frame shots over a rolling landscape with unique landforms.
    — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The birds are born with that knowledge, maybe tied to the Earth’s magnetic field and landforms.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • When magma becomes too much to handle, gases will not be able to exit the landform.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Silt from these glaciers has piled up in mounds large enough to become their own landforms, here called the Loess Hills.
    — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • The landform, accentuated by the glow of fall foliage, was a large sand dune complex.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The sea bed here has fewer coral reefs and more basaltic landforms with changing topographies and highly variable depths.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The barrier islands are landforms that developed from the buildup of tidal sand deposits.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This was the first of many useful lessons about the difference between studying the landform from space and studying it from the ground.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
  • This means that the leeward side of these landforms is usually drier and often protected from the high wind.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Powerful lobbies have tried to ravage entire landforms treated as gods.
    — K A Shaji, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The Earth’s continents and landforms are always changing thanks to the tectonic plates.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Other famous Yosemite landforms such as Half Dome were also created by the process.
    — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Then the existing metal railing surrounding Sue and its landform will be removed.
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Despite the differences, similar landforms still form, although much less is known about the surface of Titan.
    — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • While topographic maps – the ones that hikers use – show how high landforms are above sea level, bathymetric maps show how deep landforms go below sea level.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • By studying lake sediments, soil layers, and nearby landforms, researchers determined the ancient lake’s size and shape and how the climate changed.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Each tribe or nation in the region passes down their own oral histories about this spectacular landform, but there are similarities among them.
    — Kelsey Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
  • The city itself is definitely described as architecture, but it’s supposed to look like a natural landform.
    — Terrence Russell, WIRED, 20 July 2010
  • Of particular interest is a possible mud volcano — a type of landform that no Mars rover has visited before.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • One of the highest-priority landforms was Orientale Basin.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The county is just one of the many public agencies paying to prevent the landform from collapsing into the Cuyahoga River.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • Big, restless eddies unobscured by trees, landforms and botanical distractions propel ravens, turkey vultures and hawks skyward to glide in loose, lazy loops.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State.
    — Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Today, this sandy, shifting landform is a Pennsylvania state park drawing millions of visitors and migrating birds each year.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Esplanade refers to a sandstone landform in the North Rim, the more remote counterpart to the park’s popular South Rim.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Dinosaurs lived all over Pangea, the original massive landform of the world, and eventually spread apart as the continents began to separate.
    — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Caves, though notorious for being the site of many a B-grade horror movie, feature some of the world's most stunning landforms — and some of its quirkiest natural oddities.
    — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Shinomiya pays detailed attention to everything on screen, crafting not just the faces and emotions of the characters, but also all the other creatures, natural landforms and skies of this story world.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026

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