How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective

• Progress on the bill has been glacial.
• 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
• Waymo is also rolling out its fully driverless service at a glacial pace.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2020
• When champagne does change, it’s at a glacial pace usually driven from the outside.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• But questions remain: Can the health care system, which usually moves at a glacial pace, change fast enough?
  — Richard Levy, STAT, 3 Dec. 2020
• The glacial pace of recent reform on the banking and capital market unions attests to the challenge.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• This is due to glacial isostatic adjustment − land that was once compressed under the weight of ice age glaciers is now rebounding and moving upwards.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
• The peninsula is two land masses: drumlins (low hills formed by glacial retreat) that are joined by a narrow causeway called The Bar.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2020
• Each state has established its own version of the guidelines, but with the rollout proceeding at a glacial pace, pressure has been growing for a more flexible approach.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
• Basalt has higher amounts of silica and iron than the kinds of rock found at the Canadian glacier, which means that all that glacial grinding at Kötlujökull should produce more hydrogen gas.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2020
• Zhur existed at ancient intersections, not just between cold glacial periods, but between populations of wolves that are now separated.
  — Science, 21 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lonely Planet might have worked as a satire about writers, self-serious and irritating in their quirks, if the film had a sense of humor, but Grant’s screenplay moves at a glacial pace with the same events occurring over and over.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024