How to Use glacier in a Sentence

glacier

noun
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  • The Last Frontier is home to the most glaciers in the U.S.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The sound had been a chunk of ice sloughing off the side of the ancient glacier.
    — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
  • There’s the sense of the glacier being something alive.
    — Terry Ward, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Ice shelves are tongues of ice that jut out into the ocean at the end of glaciers.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
  • One side of the butt will have a fat cap on it that covers the meat like a glacier.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Love the idea of riding over a glacier, but don't love the idea of doing it in the cold?
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The same thing happens to the land when the weight of a glacier disappears.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • For much of the year, its glaciers are blanketed in fresh snow.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • This small glacier and lake can’t be seen from the Cascade Canyon trail at the bottom of the canyon.
    — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The best place to find old water, of course, is inside a glacier.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • The retreat of the glacier would provide a time series for them.
    — Jonathan Moens, Wired, 27 Nov. 2021
  • In 2016, the bodies of Lowe and Bridges finally emerged from the glacier they’d been trapped in.
    — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The 14-week-old Alaskan husky is white as a cloud with eyes as blue as a glacier and a heart warm enough to melt one.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • But the glacier had melted into a lake of slush and icebergs when the duo reached it.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
  • What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Switzerland's glaciers have shed 2.4% of their volume over the past year.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The heat is causing the Alps’ breathtaking glaciers to melt at a record pace.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The wet whoosh of whale breath joined the thunder cracks of calving glaciers and the rumbles of avalanches.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The remains of a man who died in 2001 have been revealed by a melting glacier.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Swiss glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining mass in the past two years, the report says.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • At 367 square miles, Langjökull is the second-largest glacier in Iceland.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the path winds along a ridge above Grey Lake with intermittent views back to the glacier.
    — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • This boulder was dragged here by a glacier thousands of years ago.
    — Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The earth on either side of the Red River had been rolling-pinned by a vast and ancient glacier.
    — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The ice shelves buttress glaciers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In July, 11 hikers were killed when a chunk of ice broke loose from a glacier in Italy.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But the main battlefield scenes were shot on the nearby glacier.
    — Griffin Shea, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water.
    — Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • While a place like the Saint-Sorlin glacier in the French Alps is predicted to vanish by 2050, most of the world’s natural wonders will remain long after that.
    — Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2024
  • It is known for both its scenic beauty and technically difficult terrain that boasts crevasses, avalanche risk, changeable weather and glacier movement.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024

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