How to Use glacier in a Sentence

glacier

noun

• Ice shelves are tongues of ice that jut out into the ocean at the end of glaciers.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 ice shelves buttress glaciers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water.
  — Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• The dawn bear died as a young adult during the Oligocene epoch, as the Antarctic glacier was growing and the globe was cooling.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
• The world’s ice sheets and glaciers are losing a whopping 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year.
  — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
• Efforts to curb warming need to happen in order to save the glaciers.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Jan. 2024
• As the reservoir has shrunk, this silt, exposed to the sun, has formed what can best be described as mud glaciers.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Kohler studies the melting glaciers of Svalbard, which is a group of islands near the North Pole.
  — David Schechter, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The glacier lake of Lhonak overflowed as a result of rains in the region, and the burst dam led to the Teesta River overflowing.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
• Norbu clarified that the climbers didn't fall into the opening in the glacier.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• The images of Justin trying to flee the show while in a foot cast and Kasey being stranded on a glacier are some of the best of the series to date.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2023
• Rock glaciers flow from mountain bowls in colored bands.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• But the retreat of the glacier has long made that route too unstable and dangerous.
  — George Steinmetz Catherine Porter, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Once these ice shelves melt, there’s nothing to stop the glaciers behind them from flowing into the sea.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• Of the 3% that is fresh, most is locked in ice sheets and glaciers, many of which are melting rapidly into the oceans thanks to climate change.
  — Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• Meeting the Paris Agreement emissions targets won’t stop the glacier melt in the Andes or bring rain to the Sahel.
  — Parag Khanna, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2023
• But even the mere thinning and shrinking of the ice shelf to date have allowed the glacier's flow to accelerate.
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• The same valley in 2007 ... dry with a shrunken glacier hanging like a panting dog’s tongue over the top of the valley high in the distance.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• For example, the Greenland glacier would require a 3-mile long and 350 feet high wall.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• But climate change has been shrinking glaciers, and in turn the growing season.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
• In each of these cultures, people made offerings to deities in glaciers, maraes and cenotes.
  — Renée Reizman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024