Examples of landmass in a Sentence
the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
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One idea is that the original landmass of eastern North America had an extremely strong and thick crust.
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Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
This wide distribution suggests that their roots were in the supercontinent Gondwana, before the landmasses split apart and carried madtsoiids to new evolutionary frontiers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Many were clustered around two locations: the city of Baltimore and the Delmarva Peninsula, the landmass that separates the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and includes parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
What’s more, the landmasses in the reentry zone include largely unpopulated areas like the Sahara, Atacama, and Australian deserts.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2025
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Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
This wide distribution suggests that their roots were in the supercontinent Gondwana, before the landmasses split apart and carried madtsoiids to new evolutionary frontiers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Many were clustered around two locations: the city of Baltimore and the Delmarva Peninsula, the landmass that separates the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and includes parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
What’s more, the landmasses in the reentry zone include largely unpopulated areas like the Sahara, Atacama, and Australian deserts.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2025
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“Landmass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landmass. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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landmass
noun
land·mass
-ˌmas 
: a large area of land
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