How to Use map in a Sentence

map

1 of 2 noun
  • Gibraltar was one of the maps that shipped with the first game.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The film quickly put her on the map as a singer, paving the way for her opera career.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The circle on the map represents the location of the router.
    PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Hamas wants to wipe Israel off the map, along with the United States.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Even now, like the scenes of the kids sneaking down the hall with a map — that’s my sister Patty and me.
    Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The film was banned in Vietnam last month over a cartoon-style world map.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Supreme Court put a hold on that injunction and allowed the map to be used last year.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 16 June 2023
  • On the production side, Drake enlists folks from across the map.
    Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s the thing most people miss with the whole cold hardiness map thing.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Democrats can afford to lose just one of the 23 incumbent seats on the map next year and stay in power.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And don't worry if your baby's sleep-wake schedule is all over the map for now.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The result is a highly detailed map that can predict how the coast might change.
    Rachel Gold, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The state’s map does not keep the Black Belt together, and neither do maps drawn by the plaintiffs suing the state.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Martinez said his goal has always been to give back to Lubbock, and put the city on the map — just as Mahomes has.
    Irvin Zhang, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • It’s advised to review a map of the area before setting out.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • On this site there is a Zip code map where some Portland Zip codes are listed as 8b and others 9a.
    oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The post also included a photo of a world map book and a picture of Summer on a plane.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These maps show how ZIP code level home prices in April 2023 compared to the pandemic peak.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • The district, which hasn't changed from the previous maps, contains part of Shorewood.
    Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The race The redrawn map and lack of an incumbent in the race drew big names and big personalities to run.
    Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That’s why the research team looked at maps of kelp along the entire California coast over about 100 years.
    Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
  • One thing that’s been heartening throughout the past few weeks is that people on all sides of the conflict are looking at the same maps.
    Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • On my map, Yemen was a tidy oblong chunk at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula.
    Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • These maps were actually used in the 2022 midterm elections.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And the map shapes that are likely to get attention have elicited comparisons to Swiss cheese.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • How the 24-year-old Grammy winner put Mexican music on the map.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The dashboard displays the crimes in clusters on a map colored by the predominant type of crime in that cluster.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The agency has also released a map highlighting the U.S. cities that are in the eclipse's path of totality.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That collection put the style's slouchy silhouettes and plaid flannels on the fashion map, Greer said.
    Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
  • After three years of near-total closure, Hong Kong is finally back on the tourist map.
    Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
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map

2 of 2 verb
  • The coastline was mapped by early explorers.
  • The team were able to map the positions of over 200 of these.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Over the next six years, Euclid will map the history of more than one-third of the night sky.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Teams on site will continue to map the debris field on the ocean floor.
    NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • This allowed the researchers to map the magnetic field lines of the black hole, per the statement.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The park’s namesake cave runs more than 400 miles under the earth's surface — and that’s just the part that has been explored and mapped.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The agency used the most up-to-date technology and mapped the entire state.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast.
    Christina Larson, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • His team flew drones equipped with lidar instruments up to 500 metres high to map the movement of the plume.
    Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution.
    Ethan Freedman, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The fMRI mapped the brain’s activity based on blood flow during the process.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Dallas Morning News mapped every public and private school in the state and found private school deserts across wide swaths of Texas.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Massive as the Zoonomia project was, mapping the genomes of 240 species only scratches the surface of the mammalian tree.
    Mark Johnson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mars says its preliminary findings show none of the farms that have been mapped overlap with the reserve.
    Taiwo Adebayo, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Using cell phone and financial data, authorities mapped Lopez’s trip to Texas and placed him at the scene of the crime.
    Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Xbox’s latest update adds a way to map controller buttons to keyboard keys.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The first day passed uneventfully as Rondon and Lyra began to map the upper reaches of the River of Doubt.
    Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the recent work, researchers have mapped the cell subtypes in the hypothalamus based on.
    Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the novelty analysis of Go game play, the researchers mapped up to 60 moves for each game and marked when a novel move was introduced.
    Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Keeping the hits coming means preventing the Russians from mapping Ukraine’s coastal forces.
    David Axe, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Gather this list and map these areas against business cases.
    Amal Ps, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Every millimeter of its three-mile debris field was mapped in minute detail, the press statement said.
    Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • For this project, a team of Grist reporters examined publicly available data to locate and map these trust lands.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 7 Feb. 2024
  • To date, astronomers have only mapped magnetic fields in galaxies close to us.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There are Purim spiels which re-enact the story (with the audience drowning out the name of Haman), often mapping it onto social critiques of the day.
    Deena Prichep, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s.
    Max Baucus, STAT, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Millions of words have been written and uttered on where to get a great slice in this city, ranking the best of the best, mapping optimal itineraries for crawls and tours.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The best of them bring focus to a vibrant range of themes and personalities, urgently mapping a volatile world.
    Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This story brought him to Banneker, a Black man who is credited with mapping the borders of the District using the location of the stars.
    Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Research satellites might track ice shelf shifts on Monday and on Tuesday pivot to mapping force movements in Australia.
    Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024

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