How to Use landmass in a Sentence

landmass

noun
  • West Asia sits at the western edge of the world’s largest landmass.
    — Angela Chitkara, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • About how much of the Earth's landmass is covered with glacial ice?
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • At the center of this polar landmass, the ice can be up to 2 miles thick.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • India alone is more than five times larger than Ukraine by landmass.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Here all continents unite to form a large landmass stretching from pole to pole.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • At this point, the storm is headed to our north, which means the large-scale wind flow around it is off the landmass.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The four northern islands would have been a single landmass (shown above in red).
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • This wasn’t mere hopping among landmasses, as with Post’s route.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • All of this suggested that there was a large landmass in the center of the polar sea.
    — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2016
  • Was it covered by landmass at some point in the far distant past, keeping more heat inside?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2021
  • East Island isn't the first landmass engulfed by ring sea levels.
    — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
  • There’s a lot less landmass, which negates the impact of perihelion.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • So even in a very large earthquake, what happens is sideways movement along the fault, not a breakup of the landmass.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 13 June 2026
  • The same water will hit some different landmass of the city and cause immense damage.
    — Nikhil S Dixit, Quartz India, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Since 1850, it's lost two-thirds of its landmass to erosion and sea level rise.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The country may be oil-rich, but most of its landmass is desert and unsuitable for agriculture.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • Of this number, 106 sites saw an increase in coastline landmass.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Tōhoku encompasses a fifth of Japan’s landmass, so there's plenty of room to roam.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But, as temperatures cooled and dried out the landmass, the flora and fauna began to die off.
    — Gavin Mouldey, National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Over the past 30 years, more than three-quarters of the Earth’s landmass has become drier.
    — Narcisa Pricope, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Since 1850, the island has lost two-thirds of its landmass to erosion and sea level rise.
    — Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The Allies, who were in control of all the major landmasses that lined the ocean, had the upper hand.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • The ice sheet primarily rests on the Antarctic landmass, whereas sea ice refers to ice that forms over the ocean.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • All the way at the Earth’s other pole is another landmass of tundra, the world’s second largest desert.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Today, there are 136 districts in the city, covering about a fourth of the city’s landmass.
    — Hal Dardick, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Tohoku encompasses a fifth of Japan’s landmass, so there's plenty of room to roam.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That’s equivalent to about half the landmass of the entire United States.
    — Kristen Monsell, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • India’s landmass is the largest in South Asia, and its climates range from blazing deserts to frigid mountains.
    — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Coastal provinces and cities account for a small fraction of its landmass, but more than half of its GDP.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Since 1850, the island has lost two-thirds of its landmass due to erosion and rising sea level.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025

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