How to Use geographer in a Sentence

geographer

noun

• The former geographer and lawyer starts from a place of not knowing.
  — Ivy Lerner-Frank, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• There geographer Jean-François Gravier detailed all the ways in which Paris sucked out the country’s resources.
  — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• The term was not invented by geographers but by a politician and the media.
  — Anne Trubek, Time, 3 Apr. 2018
• But to paraphrase the geographer Gilbert White: Floods are acts of God — flood losses are largely acts of people.
  — Brian Bledsoe, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• When Ray Yaeger looks at maps of the sewer system serving the greater area, the University of Louisville health geographer sees veins in a body.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2020
• Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and the great savanna.
  — Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
• But economists and geographers are now questioning what the nature of their success means for the rest of the country.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• But many geographers argue that the very idea of the local is rooted in fantasy.
  — Jennifer M. Bernstein, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
• Arab geographers first wrote about the islands in the tenth century, and in 1502, Vasco da Gama charted them on behalf of the Portuguese.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• Larner, Cramer, the historian and the geographer did not vote for a name as part of board policy.
  — Andrew Michaels, Columbia Flier, 22 Dec. 2017
• Leblanc-Jomphe, who trained as a geographer, leads me from the parking lot onto a sandy beach at the mouth of the harbor of Grande-Entrée, which is bracketed to the north and south by strips of dune.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• Using that book as their base, geographers Vale have made the same trip, observed the same landscape and taken pictures of the same locations.
  — Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• Geologists own time in the same way that geographers own space.
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
• So geographers in Afric-maps / With savage-pictures fill their gaps.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• As medical geographer Tom Koch has explained, Snow was hardly the first to use maps to study disease.
  — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
• Nordicity was coined by Louis-Edmond Hamelin, a Quebec geographer and linguist, in the 1960s.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• The damage wrought by the hurricane, which the writer and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro chronicled in these pages in 2017, wasn’t the only disaster.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
• The odds that the average human being will spend any amount of time in their life within ten feet of a king cobra or a geographer's cone snail, let alone experience the venom of one, are slim.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2017
• Scientists and geographers broadly separate the Atlantic in terms of north and south.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
• At one point, there was an art historian, a biographer and a geographer on staff.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• The charter initiative was launched six years ago in an effort to make cities greener, healthier, and wilder, says Raven-Ellison, a geographer.
  — Simon Ingram, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
• That violence, as the geographer Blake Gumprecht recounts in his history of the river, was due, in part, to its extreme topography.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Planey, the medical geographer, says that academics could learn how to write memos that politicians can understand in three minutes.
  — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• But his tortuous route actually did link the two sides of the world, and geographers now credit Mackenzie and his maps with making breakthroughs in our knowledge of the subarctic.
  — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• It was first described by the ancient Greek geographer Strabo and Roman author Plinius.
  — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2018
• Turkey’s announcement may not yet be backed up with hard facts, but its deposit remains one to watch, says Julie Klinger, a geographer at the University of Delaware.
  — Wired, 14 July 2022
• The effort cost about $3 million and is decidedly temporary, said Mark Adams, a coastal geographer at the National Seashore.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• In this travelogue, author and geographer Gina Rae La Cerva circumnavigates the globe in search of some of the planet’s last truly wild foods.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• In any of these regions, field measurements are generally only available for one or two glaciers, says Frank Paul, a geographer from the University of Zurich and author on the study.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• The newcomers crowded into shantytowns where building codes were not enforced, says Virginie Duvat, a French geographer who wrote a study of the island in 2008.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024