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How to use archipelago in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Archipelago means preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea. Example: “There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.”

Examples of archipelago by meaning

nounA thing comprising many other scattered things.

  • the Gulag Archipelago

verbTo scatter or strew (a place, or something) with things that collectively resemble a group of many islands.

  • There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.1924 December, William A[lfred] Quayle, “The Gardener”, in Out-of-doors with Jesus, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.: The Abingdon Press...
  • For a long time he had kept a pet crow called Topsy; it ate gobbets of cheese from his hand and archipelagoed the floor of his hut with droppings.1987, Jeremy Reed, chapter 4, in Blue Rock, London: Jonathan Cape […], →ISBN, page 53

More sentences with archipelago

  • Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland.2025, Peter Ross, “Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements. In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the…. From the entry abysm
  • Penghu, an archipelago made up of 97 islands, is located in the middle of the Taiwan Strait.2022 September 1, George Liao, “High-speed ferry services between Taiwan’s Tainan and Penghu resume operation”, in Taiwan News, archived…. From the entry Penghu
  • The Zhongsha Qundao, or Macclesfield Bank area, is actually entirely underwater, and not an archipelago, experts say.2022 January 18, Muzliza Mustafa, “Malaysian FM sees shift in China’s justification of sweeping South China Sea claims”, in Radio Free…. From the entry Macclesfield Bank
  • This northernmost outpost of the Matsu archipelago is a remote place that sees few visitors.1998, Robert Storey, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 323–324. From the entry Hsiyin
  • He defined the Madrean archipelago as those island mountains with a pine-oak woodland.1995, Peter Warshall, “The Madrean Sky Island Archipelago: A Planetary Overview”, in Rocky Mountain Forest, Range Experiment Station…. From the entry Madrean
  • What if the death of Britannia heightened awareness of the non-political culture that spans the entire archipelago – the islandic world?2014 July 23, James Meek, The Guardian. From the entry islandic
  • This is the southernmost inhabited island in the Matsu archipelago, actually consisting of two islands, Dongju and Xiju.2011, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 3rd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206, column 1. From the entry Dongju
  • In all documents jointly drawn up by the British and Irish governments, the archipelago is simply referred to as "these islands."2010, World and Its Peoples, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry these islands
  • Japan is an island nation in East Asia comprising a large stratovolcanic archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia.2008, Rutger de Graaf, Urban Water in Japan, page 1. From the entry stratovolcanic
  • This is the southernmost inhabited island in the Matsu archipelago, actually consisting of two islands, Dongjyu (Dongju) and Sijyu (Xiju).2007, Phil Macdonald, “Straits Islands”, in National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry Dongju
  • I once made the mistake of calling it an archipelago (which it is) and got corrected for that.2003 July 11, Larry G, “Re: Another contrastive focus reduplication”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry UKGBNI
  • Up to that time, the Hoang Sa archipelago had been part of Hoa Vang district, Quang Nam-Da Nang Province.1988, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Part III, Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Hoang Sa
  • Beijing announced last month that it was building a maritime observation station on Yungshu Reef in the archipelago.1988 July 6, Michael Richardson, “China's Claims to Spratly Islands Raise Concerns of Southeast Asians”, in International Herald Tribune…. From the entry Yungshu
  • A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa.1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unofficially
  • Besides the solfataric volcano Apo, the giant of the archipelago, there are some other volcanic cones lying in this region.1905, Census of the Philippine Islands. From the entry solfataric
  • This time the Chinese communists subjected the island of Jinmen (Quemoy) and the Mazu (Matsu) archipelago in the Taiwan Strait to a powerful bombardment.2023, Alexander V. Pantsov, “Under Washington's Wing”, in Steven I. Levine, transl., Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang…. From the entry Mazu
  • Liang, a 0.35 square kilometer island in the Matsu archipelago off the east coast of China, is part of Beigan Township in Lienchiang County.2021 June 29, Ching-yu Chao, Evelyn Kao, “Part of Matsu's Liang Island designated national archaeological site”, in Focus Taiwan, archived…. From the entry Beigan
  • Together with Vitterso, she devised a ‘winter mindset questionnaire’ to assess people’s attitudes to winter in Tromso, the Svalbard archipelago and the Oslo area.2017 March 13, Linda Geddes, “The dark town that built a giant mirror to deflect the Sun”, in BBC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2021. From the entry Svalbard
  • It appears to have reached the Japanese archipelago around the aneolithic Yayoi period, almost contemporaneous with the TB expansion in the continental Asia.2016 June, Osamu Kondo, Tomoya Aono, “Expansion of vertebral tuberculosis into Hokkaido: Implications for the population history of Ainu”…. From the entry aneolithic
  • If the Hungarian specimen is from a paralligatorid, then it would be the first occurrence of the group in the European archipelago.2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian…. From the entry paralligatorid
  • The German boys whose names all sounded the same were archipelagoed around the edge of the room, being interviewed by the Reichssender or napping.2015, Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry archipelagoed
  • In Europe cloves from the Indonesian archipelago were prized as a medicine, especially for toothache, as well as a spicer of food and drink.2003, Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the World, page 265. From the entry spicer
  • The Yungshu reef, Chigua reef, and Huayang reef, which belong to the Nansha archipelago, are located in the “dangerous zone” of the western reef clusters.1990 April 26 [1990 April 13], Lin Ning (2651 1337) [林宁], “Notes on First Satellite Position Survey of Nansha”, in Daily Report: China…. From the entry Yungshu
  • He may be a realist, but I solemnly aver he does not know reality on that tight, little, sheltered-life archipelago of his.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV. From the entry windjam
  • The Ministry of Culture said Tuesday that it has designated four ancient areas of Liang Island in the Matsu archipelago as the Taiwan's 11th national archaeological site.2021 June 29, Ching-yu Chao, Evelyn Kao, “Part of Matsu's Liang Island designated national archaeological site”, in Focus Taiwan, archived…. From the entry Beigan
  • The one distinguishing factor, the house spread, was dolloped in a nearly undetectable amount, but I assume it represents one of the atolls on the Thousand Island archipelago.2011 March 30 – April 12, Nick Altschuller, “Nick and Choose: Cattle Call”, in Andrew Rimas, editor, The Improper Bostonian, Boston…. From the entry Thousand Island

Meaning of archipelago

  1. noun Preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea.
  2. noun A sea or other body of water with many islands.
  3. noun A group of many islands.

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Questions about archipelago in a sentence

How do you use archipelago in a sentence?
Archipelago is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.”
What is a short sentence with archipelago?
“the Gulag Archipelago”
What does archipelago mean?
Archipelago means preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea.

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