Synonyms of tarn

tarn

noun

as in lake

Related Words

• lake
• pond
• reservoir
• lagoon
• loch
• lough
• puddle
• water hole
• pool
• basin
• well
• mere
• billabong
• stank
• pothole
• hole
• swimming pool
• sinkhole

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tarn

The two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall. — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024

What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice. — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024

Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush. — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022

One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet. — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022

In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed. — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022

The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms. — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020

Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake. — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018

In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular. — Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018