How to Use glacier in a Sentence

glacier

noun

• But the glacier has been rapidly melting away over the past decades, with much of its volume gone.
  — Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2022
• The Last Frontier is home to the most glaciers in the U.S.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
• Many fans pointed out, however, that drinking water from a glacier isn’t the best of ideas.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
• Using an underwater probe, the team also examined a seafloor ridge that used to help ground the glacier.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
• One compared visiting a melting glacier to calling on a friend with a terminal illness.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
• According to the outlet, the glacier is the largest in the Dolomite mountains but has been melting quickly in recent years.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2022
• The glacier is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy, and has melted rapidly in recent years.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 July 2022
• One of the greatest downstream effects from such mountain glacier loss and collapses are on fresh water systems, said Neff.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• Three people remain unaccounted for after a chunk of a glacier broke off and sent ice and rock crashing down the slope and over a popular hiking trail.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 July 2022
• The glacier, in the Marmolada range, is the largest in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy.
  — Frances D'emilio, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2022
• The researchers predicted the disappearance of the glacier in 25 to 30 years.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• Relatives of the victims have questioned whether authorities should have closed the area to hikers because the glacier has been melting faster and faster over the last decade.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 July 2022
• The next stage for the scientists will be to study how plants colonize recently exposed bare land as Antarctica’s glaciers retreat further.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
• Officials closed all access routes and chair lifts to the glacier for hikers, fearing continued instability and the potential that more chunks of ice might detach.
  — CBS News, 5 July 2022
• Some 17 people are still unaccounted for after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers in northern Italy yesterday.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
  — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024