How to Use physical geography in a Sentence

physical geography

noun
  • Yet, they would also be shocked at the widespread alterations to the physical geography, to the landscape itself.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Kalotay’s sense of place — the physical geography as well as emotional landscape — is as savvy and sharp as her portrait of the friendship between these two women.
    Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • The efforts to expand the caliphate are not limited to the physical geography of the Middle East or other places where there are large Muslim majorities.
    Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Colee’s focus on the New River is a tie-in of culture, historical events and physical geography.
    Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • The study cites a report published in 1899 that suggests Māori accounts of voyages referred to sub-Antarctic flora, fauna and physical geography.
    Saphora Smith, NBC News, 11 June 2021
  • Four years later, Sochi, Russia, suffered the same fate from a similar physical geography; low elevation and proximity to the Black Sea.
    John Hopewell, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
  • His colleague Phillip Toms, a professor of physical geography at the University of Gloucestershire, also examined quartz taken from the deepest sediment layer — around 3 feet deep at the giant’s elbows and soles.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Your economic community might have nothing to do with physical geography.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
  • Even in the age of cyber attacks and hypersonic weapons, American strategists are discovering that old-fashioned physical geography matters in U.S.-China competition.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The architecture and physical geography are distinctive, and Trapero and the team of cinematographers establish an immediate visual language that often positions human viciousness against a backdrop of beautiful mountains or verdant river valleys.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Robin quickly establishes complete authority over the mall’s physical geography.
    Michelle Delgado, The Atlantic, 17 July 2019

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