Example sentences for: alaskan

How can you use “alaskan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Stevens' pork is so legendary, says the NYT , that a recent episode of the NBC sitcom West Wing features two legislative aides joking about a $2 million outlay to monitor Alaskan skies for volcanic ash--an appropriation that, unlike the rest of the sitcom, is not fictional.

  • Farther south, angry Canadian fishermen blockaded an Alaskan ferry to protest their low catch of sockeye, which, they say, have been impelled northward to the colder Alaskan waters by unknown factors (global warming?)

  • Six "senior employees" of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System wrote to Sir John Browne, the chief executive of BP Amoco, and to three U.S. congressmen, warning of an imminent threat to human life and the Alaskan environment from irresponsible oil operations there, the paper said in its main front-page story.

  • To places where surface transportation is not available, senders would be required to pay air rates, and possibly air rates keyed to the characteristics of the Alaskan air system.

  • Even the Alaskan native population, many of whose members still subsist by hunting and fishing, is divided according to the traditional interests and financial stakes in the potential revenues.


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