How to Use volcanic in a Sentence

volcanic

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• About 95 percent are carved from the volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The plan called for a five-hour sail inside the island’s famed caldera, the volcanic bay ringed by steep cliffs.
  — Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• In the first image, the volcanic vent is circular and deep, with steep walls.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The sauce lets the volcanic tomatoes speak for themselves, and the cheese captures the essence of the sweetest, grassiest milk.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• That may seem like a bizarre response to a volcanic eruption.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
• Video footage showed a huge cloud of volcanic ash spread widely across the sky and cars and roads covered with ash.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
• The volcanic eruption is Iceland’s fifth in three years, and second in less than a month.
  — TIME, 15 Jan. 2024
• But the scale of this volcanic activity has been hard to pin down.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• In-the-know travelers and locals rave about this under-the-radar volcanic island in the Gulf of Naples.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• Iceland is one of the most active volcanic areas on the planet.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The rugged island has a large volcanic cone rising from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• And as mythic as the volcanic black sands of Iceland are, there’s something extra sweet about a beach with a band of pink sand.
  — Steven Casale, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Diamond Head — a volcanic tuff cone — is just plain cool.
  — Genevieve Ko, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
• Go the northern end of the beach; there's a cove made from black volcanic rock where kids will have no trouble spotting little fish.
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 1 Aug. 2023
• Once inside, kids can explore caves, take short hikes on volcanic terrain and feel the warmth from a steaming bluff.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• The recent volcanic eruptions have brought the world’s attention back to Iceland.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• The 37-acre field where visitors can search for treasures is the eroded surface of a volcanic crater, according to the park.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• Vichy, too, is backed by the restorative benefits of French volcanic water.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
• The images revealed a volcanic vent changing shape and increasing in size over the period of less than a year.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
• There have been no recent volcanic eruptions in Greece, experts said.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
• Her research has found that the key could be in the specific volcanic materials used by the Romans.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Scientists say data from more than 30 years ago shows the planet Venus is volcanic.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2023
• At the garden’s heart sits a fountain of black volcanic rock: a stand-in for Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• The seas then cooled somewhat because of major volcanic eruptions.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The older one caused a volcanic winter in areas within 100 km, sent ash as far away as Russia and abruptly cooled the climate around the world.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• In volcanic regions, cinnabar forms from a union of mercury and sulfur when near-boiling fluids flow through rock cracks.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• The volcanic eruption shot gas and ash 36 miles up into Earth’s mesosphere, higher than the plume from any other volcano on record.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• The chain includes eight rugged volcanic islands, with ideal soil for sugar and bananas.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Iceland, which is above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages an eruption every four to five years.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The West Maui Mountains, formed by volcanic eruptions, towered in the distance, partially cloaked by clouds.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024