Example sentences for: latitudes

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

  • Today, 70% of all land is in the northern hemisphere, and between latitudes 30° and 60° north, the ratio of water to land is about 1:1, whereas between 30° and 60° south, it is approximately 16:1.

  • origin of infra dig, take the cake, blackball, sand hog, Dutch courage, hoodlum(ism), horse latitudes, flotsam, jetsam, apple-pie bed/apple-pie order, jingo

  • Southern sites between 30° and 60° typically have mean July temperatures between 0 and 10 °C, whereas at similar latitudes in the north, mean January temperatures vary from −40 to 0 °C.

  • Consequently, I did not expect much when I looked up my favorite entry, horse latitudes , for which Jeans repeats the conventional theory (to the effect that the Spaniards used to throw starving horses overboard when they were becalmed, which I maintain to be an incredibly poor fiction); he also brings in Golfo de las Yeguas gulf of mares, which I have been able to find, with the help of the Royal Geographical Society, only inland in Spain.

  • Engineering plant is operating well; temperature between the main diesel engines--Jake and Elwood--is 98 degrees; in the high southern latitudes the temperature was barely 80 degrees.


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