How to Use volcano in a Sentence

volcano

noun
  • The volcano last erupted 25 years ago.
  • Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.
    Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • New photos and footage have emerged of the northern lights putting on a show in the background as a volcano erupts in the foreground.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The volcano moved as much matter in a few hours as the world’s rivers delivered into the oceans in a whole year.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Pluto’s strange weather also gives the team a way to estimate the age of the volcano.
    Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The whole crew can hike to a volcano, zip line through the jungle, or relax on a secluded beach—all in the same day.
    Laura Ratliff, Country Living, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Authorities asked the public not to visit the area of the volcano.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Perhaps this is why Etna is one of the world's most active volcanos.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Vortices in clouds caused by the volcanoes of the South Sandwich Islands.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Glaciers sit atop active volcano zones — the island exists in the extremes.
    Hannah Hall, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe flashes of that 1990s disaster movie about a volcano erupting in L.A. come to mind.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The four types of volcanoes are composite, cinder cone, plug dome and shield.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The volcano is about 700 miles southwest of the city of Anchorage and towards the center of Unimak Island.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 July 2023
  • There are some volcanoes around the globe that also create flows made of molten sulfur!
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • The volcano, one of the most active in the Aleutian arc, is a symmetric cone with a base diameter of 10 miles.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • The volcano, located in the Reykjanes Peninsula, had not erupted in over 6,000 years at the time.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The ski runs follow the rippling downslope of the volcano, which makes the skiing at Meadows diverse and playful.
    Heather Hansman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The last two photos featured a solo shot of Sam and a volcano towering in the distance across a body of water.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The agave used to produce Volcan comes from highlands and lowlands fields, and is grown in volcanic soil that surrounds the volcano that gives the brand its name.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Now, authorities warn, the volcano could be ramping up to erupt again.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
  • On Io, the innermost of the four large moons, this leads to volcanoes, with up to 400 active eruptions taking place at any time.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The source soon became clear: the Hunga Tonga volcano, which had just erupted in the South Pacific.
    WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Since that time, however, the volcanoes of the Reykjanes have fallen silent.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Indonesia has the most volcanoes on the current list, with seven.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • One of the world’s largest calderas, which form after a volcano erupts, Pastos Grandes is a giant earthen bowl measuring 37 miles across.
    Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
  • Air routes over Alaska with the many potentially active volcanoes of the state shown as dots.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Possibly as many as 75 climbers and hikers were on the volcano when the blast occurred, sending ash and debris kilometers into the air and down the slopes of the volcano.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The likelihood of the eruption of Alaska's Tanaga volcano, located in the Aleutians, increased over the past two days.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Hikers can climb atop the volcano for a 360-degree view or hike around the peak and admire its interesting features.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There’s an old Icelandic myth that holds that this volcano, one of the country’s most active and destructive, is the gate of hell, and the hundreds of gulls circling it are condemned souls.
    Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023

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