How to Use landlocked in a Sentence

landlocked

adjective
  • Other landlocked cities aren’t far behind.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The first being that Taiwan is an island, not a landlocked nation.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Who would have thought one of your favorite beaches would be seated right at the edge of the landlocked state of Arizona?
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Pakistan is the main source of goods and food supplies for landlocked, impoverished Afghanistan.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The landlocked city has little industry to support its tax base, and many taxpayers are already at the top of their tax cap.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Their property had become landlocked.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Even landlocked Mongolia has a registry of oceangoing ships flying its flag.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Neighboring India, which surrounds landlocked Nepal on three sides, has offered to help.
    — CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • These landlocked properties offer a kind of privacy not afforded cheek-by-jowl homes along the beach as well as gorgeous views that can take in the mountains and the ocean.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Colombia could have avoided the specter of a landlocked Leticia had dredged the smaller branch of the Amazon River that now flows past the town.
    — John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The pilot targets destinations with direct port access; access to landlocked countries is a challenge yet to be addressed.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The village is also looking to increase housing stock – always a tricky feat for a landlocked municipality.
    — Igor Studenkov, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • McLead said the town has owned the landlocked property for some time, but there is no interest from his department or other town departments in using the land.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • These Riviera stripes are a distinctly coastal window treatment, but are versatile enough to work in a landlocked environment.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
  • His small landlocked nation is farther ahead of the Eastern European counterparts in baseball.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The roundabout was built to service a container terminal on a new railway line that would help provide this landlocked part of central Europe with better access to the sea.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The district also said the landlocked nature of Whitefish Bay has limited its options for updating district buildings.
    — Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The landlocked nation is currently under a fuel blockade by JNIM.
    — CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The issue resonates not only at the AU, but in Ethiopia itself, which has long eyed Somaliland’s ports as a strategic outlet for the landlocked country.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina is the country with the shortest coastline (20km) to have ever played at the World Cup (excluding landlocked nations).
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Combine that with new east-west routes like TRIPP, and Armenia transforms from a landlocked country into a true crossroads of trade.
    — Narek Mkrtchyan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The landlocked Caspian Sea is bordered by several other countries, including Russia.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Violent clashes erupted on the border in October, and Pakistan carried out air strikes before suspending trade with landlocked Afghanistan.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Hungary is a landlocked country with limited direct access to global energy markets, making pipeline infrastructure central to its supplies.
    — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Armenia is a landlocked nation in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia, bordering Turkey.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Though the location of the story, a landlocked Southern California city, did present some sartorial limitations.
    — Rendy Jones, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The landlocked nation of 23 million people has symbolized the security crisis in the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert in recent years.
    — Wilson McMakin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The cost of real Christmas trees is directly impacted by a long production cycle and transportation costs, particularly for landlocked markets like Denver.
    — Ali Besharat, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The massive, 120-mile Lake Champlain holds landlocked salmon, lake trout, northern pike, yellow perch, white perch, walleye, and crappie, while surrounding smaller lakes hold various combinations of fish.
    — Robert Annis, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
  • What’s driving the increase The cost of real Christmas trees is directly impacted by a long production cycle and transportation costs, particularly for landlocked markets like Denver.
    — Ali Besharat, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025

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