How to Use tropic in a Sentence

tropic

noun
  • Morales marshaled the latest march from his hideout in Bolivia’s remote tropics.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Volcanoes are everywhere—found across tundras, islands, tropics.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Acid soil is found in the humid northern temperate zone, where evergreens grow, and in the humid tropics, which is covered by savannah and tropical rainforests.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, the NWS said another low-pressure system from the southern tropics was set to impact the region with increasing winds.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • This correlation is also stronger in more temperate regions than tropics, and in countries with fewer human impacts on the environment.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • The low pressure system traveled up from Southern California and brought monsoon moisture from the sub-tropics, Gass said.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Atlantic tropics are quiet while Pacific stirs In the Atlantic basin, forecasters are predicting a quiet stretch of weather.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • The spirit of a '90s summer vacation is alive and well in tropics-print caftans like this fresh-off-the-runway one from SHAN's SS27 Collection.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • The shower's peak will be strongest for those watching from the southern hemisphere tropics, where up to 50 meteors may be seen streaking across the night sky each hour under ideal conditions, according to the American Meteor Society.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • Regardless of whether the banana plant grew within the ecosystems of the precolonial American tropics or not, Indigenous communities and ecologies across the region adapted to the banana plant in a variety of ways that would eventually come to be part of a sustained tradition.
    — Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026
  • In its latest global tropics hazards outlook, covering September 10-16 and September 17-23, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) indicated at least a 20 percent chance of cyclone formation, at least of tropical depression strength, in the Florida, Gulf, and Caribbean region.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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