How to Use atlas in a Sentence

atlas

noun

• Even an atlas isn’t sufficient to map the chaotic ebb and flow of this war.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• Then Malley asked for an atlas that was sitting on the table, and for a pen.
  — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
• Effects of climate warming, such as the changes in sea ice, are detailed in the atlas.
  — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Aug. 2017
• The atlas, many of its pages weathered and torn, included a list of patrons and maps.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Nov. 2020
• For Ajay, 11, the answer to the conflict was evident in his atlas.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• And that, ultimately, is the best way to think about a human atlas.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan wondered: What about atlases, which are books of maps?
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
• The atlas also honed his ability to find countries on the map.
  — Allie Caren, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• His invention was born of a childhood rapt by the beauty of an atlas.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Work on the atlas began in 2016, and its organisers hope to complete the effort by the end of this decade.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
• Dozens of experts and volunteers compiled the atlas over the course of five years, Morris writes.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2017
• One objective is to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of both the near and far sides of the moon.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• Much like an atlas, each page of this project reveals something telling and different about the city at hand.
  — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
• The result is a remarkable atlas charting where New York has gone, and why.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• Listening to them back to back is like getting hit in the head by an atlas written by the Chamber of Commerce.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• Monthly sky maps take the place of a planisphere in this atlas, which covers both the northern and southern hemisphere.
  — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2019
• Over the years, the Allen Institute has used mice and the brains of cadavers to create atlases of where various genes are expressed in the brain.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• The team compared the cell-type atlas of the bearded dragon’s brain to that of the mouse’s brain, and found that the cell types in broad brain regions correspond to one another.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• But there was definitely something that made the Army Corps of Engineers put that in the atlas.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2019
• Four fossilized backbones of the ancient salamander were unearthed, including the atlas at the top of the spine that allows the head to nod.
  — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
• In a few years, DESI won’t be the only sweeping galactic atlas in town.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
• One way to understand his art is as an atlas of the imagination.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Imagine such a ballad serving as the atlas of a borderless world. . . .
  — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• In June, a Canadian and German team introduced what is arguably the most detailed 3-D atlas of the brain so far.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2014
• Jon Randall first discovered Marfa by looking at an atlas and picking the spot in the middle of nowhere in Texas.
  — Rachel Burchfield, Country Living, 22 June 2021
• But Suntok’s field notes contained a vital clue: near the shoulder-blade fragment, the lawyer found a fossilized atlas—the vertebra from the base of a whale’s skull.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• Eleven grants are going to groups that are building a comprehensive atlas of the brain, a sort of parts list and 3D map of what cells are there and how they are organized.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
• Just last month, researchers released an atlas of more than 200 images from the Arctic and Antarctic seafloor showing the tracks of ancient glaciers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• In 1861, for example, Charles E. Pinney produced the first insurance atlas of the city.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• Overall, 13% of the districts and 15% of the population are vulnerable to heat waves in India, the atlas showed.
  — Soumya Sarkar, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024