How to Use cinder cone in a Sentence

cinder cone

noun

• At the base of the cinder cone was a crown of low evergreens.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• The 1-mile loop trail enters the Bonito Lava Flow, which gushed from the base of the cinder cone.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• But a smaller cinder cone to the east is where all of the recent action is.
  — Angela Fritz, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• Red Mountain looms to the left, a volcanic cinder cone.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Left behind is a cinder cone of more than 100 feet that’s been renamed Ahu’aila’au and will take decades to cool.
  — Dan Nakaso, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
• When a cinder cone erupts, the ground shakes as magma rises.
  — CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
• Etching of Monte Nuovo, a small cinder cone that formed in the Campi Flegrei in 1538.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• The park is littered with volcanic rock and cinder cones from past eruptions.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
• And the final challenge between us and our dome was a steep up-and-over on a cinder cone ridge made of small, gravel-like stones.
  — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2013
• Filled with cinder cones and craters, the area looked like it had been hit by both a volcanic eruption and a meteor strike.
  — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The 1538 eruption produced a small cinder cone in Pouzzuoli at the mouth of the Bay of Naples, burying parts of medieval villages.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• Within a half mile, the trail parallels the Walker Lake cinder cone.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• In tiny Hana, a town on eastern Maui, a cinder cone shields a red-sand beach where nudists and endangered monk seals bake idly in the sun.
  — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• The four types of volcanoes are composite, cinder cone, plug dome and shield.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
• Pu`u `O`o formed at the beginning of the 1983 eruption, although the activity has since moved away from the cinder cone along the East Rift Zone.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• Hike to the top of a cinder cone, walk along a historic ranch road to see tree molds and lava flows from 1868, or bike through scenic pastures for some of the best panoramic views of the area.
  — Catherine Toth Fox, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2020
• It’s made from material found on the Pu’u Nene cinder cone volcano in Hawaii.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• The 1,000-foot cinder cone blew ash and debris for miles before liquid rock oozed from its western base and formed the Bonito Lava Flow.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• The monument, named for the vibrant red and yellow colors in its cinder cone, is the result of a volcanic fissure about 1,000 years ago.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Red Mountain is one of several hundred cinder cones that dot the landscape around Flagstaff.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
• Visitors can explore the cinder cones, caldera, and lava flows on foot and by car or helicopter.
  — Katie Knorovsky, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• This hike led us past different lava features—caves, tubes, trenches—to the rim of a cinder cone and over a lava flow topped by sparse pine forest.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2023
• Though half of the caldera is obscured beneath the crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean, the other half is on land studded with cinder cones and craters from smaller eruptions.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• The eruption on Nishino-shima is mostly basaltic lava flows (like those in Hawai'i), but a cinder cone has also grown on the island (above and below).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2020
• The ash and volcanic bombs produced from these explosions at the cinder cone are clearly visible.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2020
• My earliest memory of skiing deep powder, at age five or six, was on the cinder cone at Bachelor, which had no lift.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Built atop an old volcanic cinder cone, Mount Tabor is beloved by runners, walkers, hikers, cyclists and stroller-pushers alike.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2021
• Views from the tops of these trails showcase a landscape dotted with cinder cones, lava domes and expansive lava flows that melt into the colorful flatlands of the Painted Desert and the edge of Grand Canyon.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• One such place is Antelope Mountain, a fascinating cinder cone on State Trust land.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• That being said, the last eruption (Monte Nuovo in 1538) was actually a fairly-benign cinder cone.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024