Example Sentences

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It is, according to the RNLI, "topographically constrained", while other rip currents can also regularly form along the beach.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

The killer combination of a topographically flat and bone-dry interior could also stifle any river-borne transport of carbon-rich sediments otherwise destined to be sequestered in the ocean.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

It was an intense, volatile time, but it created a fantastically unique mountain range that, while crop-averse topographically, boasts unparalleled ecological diversity.

From National Geographic • Oct. 13, 2023

Unlike the Aztec Empire, which expanded across a far more topographically consistent landscape, the Inca Empire included large mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, and narrow coastal valleys.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn’t wilderness, and hadn’t been for hundreds of years.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer