How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective

• Progress on the bill has been glacial.
• In La Libertad, the beat of the day slows down to a glacial pace.
  — Sean Patrick Flynn, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
• The measure’s progress through the gears of the lawmaking machinery has been glacial.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• The two of us strapped our gear onto the boats and affixed our spray skirts around each cockpit, then pushed off into the milky blue glacial water.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 16 June 2021
• Experts noticedthat the glacial ice loss was accelerating.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• The rock and ice of the core have been extensively studied, but the three inches of glacial till at the bottom of the core had been previously overlooked.
  — Carly Miller, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• However, Cupp and the caucus have moved at a glacial pace in determining Householder’s fate.
  — cleveland, 26 May 2021
• Eklutna Lake, about a 40-minute drive from Anchorage, is 7 miles long and fed by freshwater and glacial streams.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2021
• Well that escalated quickly, especially given the glacial pace of college football change.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 11 June 2021
• Investors have blamed glacial bureaucracy and indecision within ministry ranks for thwarting projects.
  — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• With the speed at which consumer desires change and the speed at which designers and innovators are ideating on new products, this glacial pace is borderline unacceptable.
  — Amar Hanspal, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• Since then, as the case made its way through India’s justice system at a typically glacial pace, Mr. Tejpal has largely disappeared from public life.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• Yet due to the typically glacial pace of progress in Washington, Gonzalez said his most optimistic projection would be passage by the end of the calendar year.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• My work suggests that progress along these lines is glacial at best.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
• 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
• As a result, millions now live within 30 miles of a glacial lake.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Fittingly, glacial views from the panoramic windows steal the show.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• To move between the high passes and among the glacial lakes and verdant glades of the Sierra is to be dumbstruck by the same landscape that catalyzed U.S. conservation.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024