Example sentences for: arctic

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

  • Flights from Montréal or Toronto (2,200 km/1,320 miles) take you up to Baffin Island and the world’s only national park inside the Arctic Circle.

  • If you feel drawn by a rendezvous with the Midnight Sun, make for these immense lands covering one-third of Canada’s total surface, where, compared to the icy expanses inside the Arctic Circle, the tundra passes for lush meadowland.

  • As another example, the indigenous people of the Arctic are, as far as I know, still commonly referred to in the United States as Eskimos; but for some time now the PC term in Canada has been Inuit, a term which affords great scope for PC snobbery, as it can be fairly complicated; the people are Inuit; the language is Inuitituk; and an individual is an Inuk.

  • The author, who dogsleds through the Arctic, decides that the greatest thrill lies in returning home with all his toes.

  • These toughest of all Canadians have withstood the hardships of the far north, including its icy deserts and Arctic blizzards, but were nearly wiped out by European diseases — measles, mumps, and smallpox.


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