How to Use topographic in a Sentence

topographic

adjective
  • Garmins can help if you get lost, too, with preloaded topographic maps.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Among them are a topographic map print, large maple leaf details and colors that range from red and green to blue.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Among them are a topographic map print, large maple leaf details and colors that range from red and green to blue.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The green matchsticks, placed at varying heights for topographic effect, served as a metaphor for trees.
    — D.w. Pine, Time, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Your best bet is to drop by a visitor center to get a paper map or download a free topographic map on your phone.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
  • This is the first time that anyone has produced a topographic model using this equation.
    — Theo Nicitopoulos, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • They were forced to puzzle over topographic maps so old that some dated to the Civil War.
    — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The same is true of regional effects caused by things like topographic features or islands.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The sink, a topographic map of hardened scum, threatens to collapse on an ancient hamper.
    — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Fissures lack a lot of topographic relief, so picking them out in such profiles could be difficult.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2013
  • Access topographic maps, track adventures and search for parks and trails within the app loaded with features.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 29 July 2021
  • Unlike the lower sections of the tree, the bark here is smooth and seamless with a purple tint, and etched with fine lines like topographic contours.
    — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Researchers can use these differences in height to create a kind of topographic map of the surface of fresh- and seawater.
    — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But the Windy City is, by and large, devoid of any real topographic variation.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • When used from a plane, millions of points are collected, resulting in a detailed topographic map of the landscape.
    — Gabriel D. Wrobel, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This region represents a topographic motor map of the various body parts controlled by the brain, from toes to feet to hands and so on all the way to lips and mouth.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • That design process kicked off in April with topographic surveys and geotechnical field work at hundreds of damage sites around the county.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The vibe is trippy, from the carpeting inspired by topographic maps to acid-bright murals of Western landscapes.
    — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Sori delved into the problem by taking topographic maps of Mercury and adding in density mapping.
    — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2018
  • The new topographic data will then, in turn, help officials model how floodwaters could spill out of bayous and creeks and which areas are most likely to flood.
    — Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In a single dive day, the renderings can capture topographic details that would take weeks of manual measurements to record (above).
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Enable the topographic map layer to see more detail in the areas between landmarks, then download the map of your hiking area for offline viewing.
    — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 3 July 2019
  • The scans produce a set of cross-sectional images, each resembling a topographic map, showing the internal contours of the wound papyrus.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • The atmospheric waves were thought to be the result of winds passing over topographic features on the surface, a process that has been documented on the day side of Venus.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
  • But radar and topographic data of the sites revealed the inlets’ riverbeds as well as the causeways that led to the pyramids of Pepi II and Merenre.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 May 2024
  • For anyone who uses topographic map apps like Gaia GPS to navigate while hiking, this one’s for you.
    — Hannah Singleton, SELF, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The researchers studied how water might move through the city by building a high-resolution topographic map, one that could show details as small as three meters across, or about 10 feet.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In the lab, Ikhrata pressed several buttons on a large topographic model of San Diego County.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The company cites the country’s architecture, beautiful beaches, and topographic variety as some of the main reasons to move there.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2026

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