Example sentences for: arctic

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

  • 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.

  • The Gwich'in, "the people of the caribou," oppose development of the Arctic coastal plain, to which the caribou migrate to breed.

  • Along the way he's crashed in (and been rescued from) the Canadian Arctic and the Atlantic.

  • I once read that the Eskimo has 30-odd words for snow, not all of them impolite, which is not surprising in view of the Arctic habitat and lifestyle.

  • I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels a frisson when a forecaster announces that a cold front is "descending" from Canada--as if some malevolent Arctic god were coming to exact revenge for the sins of Washington.


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