Example sentences for: arctic

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

  • While 70 percent of Americans consistently tell pollsters they oppose extending oil and gas drilling and other development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 70 percent of Alaskans favor it.

  • Proponents of an Arctic gas pipeline passing through Indian lands in the Mackenzie Valley to northern Alberta argued that the Dene need revenues from the pipeline to escape poverty, and that in any case they no longer have an autonomous culture.

  • The eastern half, which takes in Baffin Island, the land around Hudson’s Bay, and most of the Arctic islands, is now called Nunavut and essentially functions as an Inuit homeland.

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

  • But more and more adventurers from “the outside” head for the Yukon’s rugged mountains or the Northwest Territories’ eerily beautiful Arctic wastes (the northernmost point is just 830 km/500 miles from the Pole).


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