How to Use moraine in a Sentence

moraine

noun

• Today, Sarn Badrig is the name of a reef formed by the remains of a glacial moraine.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• Stay near the vast glacial moraine at the heart of Skaftafell National Park.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• The center is built on the edge of Portage Lake on the moraine left by the receding Portage Glacier in 1914.
  — Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
• The terminal moraine, the mounds of rubble left behind, form much of their high ground….
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• The moraine acts as a dam, stopping the water from spilling into the valley below.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• On a bed of ice cubes, oysters puddle in their shells next to a sliding pinkish moraine of shrimp.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
• The Perros Glacier is unique and worth spending some time taking in from the lookout around the corner from the moraine if the weather's good.
  — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• These are lovely medial moraines, teardrop loops of black on white when viewed from far above.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
• To the north, the Tibet base camp is located below the terminal moraine of the Rongok Glacier.
  — National Geographic, 16 May 2019
• The torrents are so forceful there is a roar in the air—water gouging its way through old moraines and rolling boulders along the bottom of the riverbeds.
  — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• Like Long Island, these are remnants of the rubble pile, or terminal moraine, pushed up by the ice sheet.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2014
• The icefall gave way to a barren strip of gray moraine dotted with yellow and orange tents, the remnants of the season's Base Camp.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• She and her husband run an organic beef, fruit and vegetable farm on the slopes of a glacial moraine in Minnesota.
  — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• Standing on the ice, Medrzycka noticed a pattern in the moraine -- the debris bank that generally runs along the top of the glacier.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• Most climbing parties overnight on the moraine flats near Helen Lake and make their summit pushes from there, setting out in the middle of the night.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021
• Icebergs regularly break off from the glacier face, getting caught in this shallow moraine and along the shoreline.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The sinewy hill and its glacial cousins — moraines, kettles and kames — make for a challenging winter hike, especially in deep snow.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
• Debris dragged along the landscape deposited in rounded hills, or kames, along with steep ridges known as eskers and moraines; and deep holes were scooped from the earth to form kettles.
  — Chelsey Lewis, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• Many of these new lakes are held back by glacial moraines, which are essentially mounds of compressed sediments.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
• For decades, people have used Jeeps and other off-road vehicles to reach the rocky moonscape of the glacial moraine via the Jim Creek area, on the north side of the valley, according to a history of the area.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
• Instead of painting a view of nature, sculptors created their own massive works outdoors on mesas, moraines and even the floor of the Mojave Desert.
  — Phyllis Tuchman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2017
• The easiest explanation for a series of ridges like this would be a moraine, debris left behind at the edge of a glacier's furthest extent.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
• The conveyor belt action also builds up a hill of gravel that surrounds its end, called a terminal moraine.
  — National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
• Soils here are a complex mix of limestone, loess, granite, clay, gravel banks (both riverine and glacial moraine), sand and decomposed volcanics.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The small island, measuring roughly 30 meters across and a peak of about three metres, consists of seabed mud as well as moraine -- soil and rock left behind by moving glaciers.
  — CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• Looking for a 24-7 view of a national historical landmark with sweeping gazes upon glacial moraine and the Wrangells?
  — Erin Kirkland, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Aug. 2017
• Moraines and gentle drumlins rose and fell along the riverside, creating miniature highlands shrouded in red oak and sugar maple.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
• The largest deposits form what geologists call a terminal moraine.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• But the finale, including the two lakes — one glacier-fed and mint green, the other a deep aquamarine — separated by a single moraine, and the towering peaks on all sides make the effort worth it.
  — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• Ground-penetrating radar determined that Imja Lake is held there by a very fragile moraine.
  — Alton Byers, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2013

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024