How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective

• Progress on the bill has been glacial.
• The glacial, half-mile stretch to the banks of the Ohio was the last leg to freedom.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, The Enquirer, 30 July 2020
• Why did the glacial ice not extend all the way across the bay?
  — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• The case has moved along at a glacial pace amid a Covid backlog in the courts.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
• In La Libertad, the beat of the day slows down to a glacial pace.
  — Sean Patrick Flynn, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
• The deal is one of the first out of Toronto, where the market has moved at glacial pace.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
• One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
• The site in the rolling, glacial terrain is blessed with cold, spring water.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2020
• Much of Chicago was built on a glacial lakebed, which means very clayey soils.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
• Stick to cool or cold drinks, not ones that are a degree or two off glacial.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Of that 3 percent, about two-thirds is frozen in the world’s melting glacial ice.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• About how much of the Earth's landmass is covered with glacial ice?
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• My work suggests that progress along these lines is glacial at best.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
• At some point, glacial progress spills over into anger.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• But change moves at a glacial pace in the world of professional sports.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• The filing details the glacial pace of progress on a structure that the city would prefer not to build at all.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• The Alps lost half their glacial ice since the 1800s, and most of what remains will likely be gone by the end of the century.
  — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• Progress seems to be glacial in many places, but the momentum in Australia is not just slow.
  — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• But this is too important to be left to the glacial pace of COP discussions.
  — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
• Scientists estimate that two-thirds of the glacial ice in the Alps will melt by 2100.
  — Michael Hardy, Wired, 26 May 2020
• As a result, millions now live within 30 miles of a glacial lake.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• For Greenland’s glaciers, the warming ocean is the biggest cause of glacial retreat.
  — Michalea King, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2020
• In Pakistan, snowmelt caused a glacial lake to flood and wipe out an important bridge.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• Our leaders’ glacial pace on climate has been their own fault, not ours.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
• The measure’s progress through the gears of the lawmaking machinery has been glacial.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Fittingly, glacial views from the panoramic windows steal the show.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• One of the primary issues is the glacial pace of decision-making.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• Changes of bigger magnitude than this will always feel glacial.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025