How to Use glacier in a Sentence

glacier

noun

• The Last Frontier is home to the most glaciers in the U.S.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
• There’s the sense of the glacier being something alive.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• Ice shelves are tongues of ice that jut out into the ocean at the end of glaciers.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• Love the idea of riding over a glacier, but don't love the idea of doing it in the cold?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2022
• The same thing happens to the land when the weight of a glacier disappears.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• For much of the year, its glaciers are blanketed in fresh snow.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
• This small glacier and lake can’t be seen from the Cascade Canyon trail at the bottom of the canyon.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The best place to find old water, of course, is inside a glacier.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• The 14-week-old Alaskan husky is white as a cloud with eyes as blue as a glacier and a heart warm enough to melt one.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• But the glacier had melted into a lake of slush and icebergs when the duo reached it.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
• What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
  — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• Switzerland's glaciers have shed 2.4% of their volume over the past year.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• The heat is causing the Alps’ breathtaking glaciers to melt at a record pace.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 7 Nov. 2023
• The wet whoosh of whale breath joined the thunder cracks of calving glaciers and the rumbles of avalanches.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• The remains of a man who died in 2001 have been revealed by a melting glacier.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Swiss glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining mass in the past two years, the report says.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Most of the path winds along a ridge above Grey Lake with intermittent views back to the glacier.
  — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• This boulder was dragged here by a glacier thousands of years ago.
  — Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• The earth on either side of the Red River had been rolling-pinned by a vast and ancient glacier.
  — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The ice shelves buttress glaciers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• In July, 11 hikers were killed when a chunk of ice broke loose from a glacier in Italy.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
• But the main battlefield scenes were shot on the nearby glacier.
  — Griffin Shea, CNN, 4 May 2022
• That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water.
  — Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• The aim is to extract chunks of the glacier and store them in Antarctica for future study.
  — Luigi Navarra, ajc, 17 Mar. 2022
• Hundreds of millions of years ago, glaciers and sea ice covered the globe.
  — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
• The dawn bear died as a young adult during the Oligocene epoch, as the Antarctic glacier was growing and the globe was cooling.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
• The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The world’s ice sheets and glaciers are losing a whopping 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year.
  — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
• The Pine Island glacier is considered to be one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• The glaciers also help to prevent the collapse of the rest of the Antarctic ice sheet behind them that has enough ice to raise sea levels a catastrophic 10 feet.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024