How to Use the Arctic Circle in a Sentence

the Arctic Circle

noun
  • This guy spent years in weather stations in the Arctic Circle.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • In this small town on the Arctic Circle, a tense debate is playing out about how much is enough.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t a subtle glow reserved for the Arctic Circle.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Kulusuk is on an island of the same name, just below the Arctic Circle.
    — Chloe Berge, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Almost all their breeding sites lie north of the Arctic Circle, on open tundra.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Midnight sun cruises cross the Arctic Circle and sail through a world without night.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Traces of the fu-gos were seen from the Aleutians to Bethel to above the Arctic Circle.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In Tromsø, which sits above the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t rise for two full months in winter.
    — Renée Onque, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That’s why the sun never sets at all in the Arctic Circle during the time around the summer solstice.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Areas closest to the Arctic Circle will have the greatest chance of catching a glimpse of the lights.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
  • This is the Brooks Range, roughly 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    — Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Nikita Zimov walked through the sticky brown muck of Siberia, just above the Arctic Circle.
    — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the island is inside the Arctic Circle, which is being transformed by climate change.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Most of the island is inside the Arctic Circle, which is being transformed by climate change.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The weather was uncommonly hot and still for a place just below the Arctic Circle that is iced over for eight months of the year.
    — David Treuer, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Right on the southern edge of the Arctic Circle, Iceland is one of the best places to witness the northern lights.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Just ask Bodo/Glimt, a club based north of the Arctic Circle who play home games on a plastic pitch all year round.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Navalny’s lawyers represented him in the lead-up to his death at a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle.
    — Irwin Cotler, Time, 8 May 2026
  • The ship will take us from Bergen, all along the coast up to Kirkenes, above the Arctic Circle, with gorgeous scenery to enjoy.
    — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Her childhood was spent in Kotzebue, roughly 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Located 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Kiruna is best known for its large iron ore mine, one of the largest in the world.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Snow begins to blanket the city, which is just 5° south of the Arctic Circle, in November.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The common adder is one of only two venomous snakes in Germany and the only snake known to live north of the Arctic Circle.
    — Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Not bad for a country with half the population of the state of New York, tucked away by the Arctic Circle.
    — Oscar Täckström, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The storm is literally coming right out of the Arctic Circle and making a beeline for our backyard.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Nosok is in the Krasnoyarsk region inside the Arctic Circle.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • North of the Arctic Circle, the seven main islands stretch across more than 100 miles of wild, pristine landscape.
    — Phil Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
  • Putin has long made a habit of not mentioning Navalny, who died last month in a Russian prison north of the Arctic Circle.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • By June, there will be a midnight sun in Iceland and other locations on or in the Arctic Circle.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Now comes a new title, a new creator, and a very different setting, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024

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