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• Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.From the entry melt
• The lava bubbled up and over the rim of the crater.From the entry over
• The impact event brecciated the regolith in the area of the crater.From the entry brecciate
• Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.From the entry mine
• The surface of the planet was deeply cratered.From the entry deeply
• The planet had a cratered surface.From the entry cratered
• “The crater and surrounding damage is also not consistent with a JDAM aerial bomb.2023 October 18, Manisha Ganguly, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jason Burke, Elena Morresi, Ashley Kirk, quoting Marc Garlasco, “Al-Ahli Arab…. From the entry JDAM
• He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43. From the entry burnt
• “Until the crypto market had a drop and some of the bigger exchanges cratered,” he explained.2022 December 14, Roxie Rivera, When The Westons Went To Moscow, Night Works Books. From the entry rug pull
• Some crater rings show faintly through the lunabase; others just break surface.2014, Frederick I. Ordway, Advances in Space Science and Technology, page 42. From the entry lunabase
• Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.2009 October, The Economist, page 84. From the entry pray in aid
• The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.2008, Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent, page 629. From the entry bomb
• Look for three prominent interior craters, as well as an ancient rima falling near the shadow's edge.2006, Tammy Plotner, Jeff Barbour, What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching, page 128. From the entry rima
• There is some evidence of sympatric speciation of cichlid fish in small African crater lakes.2004, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, Phoenix, published 2005, page 349. From the entry sympatric
• It is found only in association with meteorite impact craters and crater ejecta.1992, “Terrestrial Impact Craters Glossary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry diaplectic
• This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast.1987, Michio Kaku, Daniel Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 203. From the entry silo
• Some young, but nonrayed, craters exhibited scattering enhancements as strong as those of the rayed craters.1972, John W. Lucas, Thermal Characteristics of the Moon, page 109. From the entry nonrayed
• The mountain top is formed by a crater, occupied by a lake called Tienchih ("celestial pond").1964, “CHANGPAI SHAN or PAEKTU SAN”, in Encyclopedia International, 1st edition, volume 4, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247, column 2. From the entry Tienchih
• Two charges should be used: a cratering charge, and a small charge of a brisant explosive.1962, NAVWEPS OP [Ordnance Pamphlet] 2212: Demolition Materials, Bureau of Naval Weapons, pages 6–12. From the entry brisant
• Reid Wiseman of NASA, the mission’s commander, eagerly noted impact craters and a swirl on the lunar surface.2026 April 7, Katrina Miller, “Houston, We Have No Problem. But We Do Have a Lot of ‘Moon Joy.’”, in NYT, archived from the original on 10…. From the entry moon joy
• Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell, page 124. From the entry joystick
• A patchwork of cratered terrain and younger, complex formations, Miranda may have been repeatedly shattered by collisions and reassembled by gravity.1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 63. From the entry Miranda
• Tests and experiments conducted in loose, dry soil, more similar to where US silos are based, produced smaller-diameter, soupbowl-like craters.1985, William M. Arkin, Andrew S. Burrows, Richard W. Fieldhouse, Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris, Jeffrey I. Sands, “Nuclear…. From the entry soupbowl
• It’s a crater more than twenty-five kloms in diameter.1983, Julian May, The Many-Coloured Land (paperback), Pan Books, Ltd., →ISBN, page 291. From the entry klom
• Scene near Ingatestone, L.N.E.R., shortly after the locomotive of a London-Harwich train had fallen into a bomb crater.1943 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive in Bomb Crater”, in Railway Magazine, page 311, photo caption. From the entry bomb crater
• Thus these lavaless craters appear to indicate the presence of intrusive bodies that have solidified before reaching the surface.1936, Bailey Willis, Studies in comparative seismology, page 258. From the entry lavaless
• Hot springs simmer on the surrounding peaks, wild blueberries grow on its green slopes and a crystal-clear pool called Heaven Lake fills its crater.2016 December 9, Nicholas St. Fleur, “Only a Rumbling Volcano Could Make North Korea and the West Play Nice”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Heaven Lake
• The miners slowly walked up the steep crater walls, stopping frequently while clouds of sulfurous gas blanketed the crater in the background.2015 February 25, Kevin McElvaney, “Inside Indonesia's Ijen Volcano”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry blanket
• Heavily cratered and irregularly shaped, Janus orbits Saturn just beyond the F ring and only 50km (30 miles) farther away than its co-orbital moon, Epimetheus.2012 October, “Saturn”, in Martin Rees, editor, Universe, rev. edition, London: Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry Janus
• "But in order to get dere, we had to go trew a crater not knowing it was a yuge snake pit, YUGE!2010, Barbara Buchli, Voice in the Wind. From the entry yuge
• Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres.2002, Richard Bangs, Ed Viesturs, Richard Bangs, adventure without end. From the entry Toblerone
• The location of the primary impact crater was 25° 55’ north latitude, 80° 35’ west longitude, or approximately 17 miles northwest of MIA.1997, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain…. From the entry impact crater
• It supports a hundred towns and villages and craters so numerous and so constantly changing that no two Etneans will agree on their number.1977, Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 321, page 118. From the entry Etnean
• Changpaishan, with its snow-capped peak, an old crater in which the lake called Tienchih lies, still has its place in the imagination of the people.1961, Rewi Alley, China's Hinterland in the Leap Forward, →OCLC, page 498. From the entry Tienchih

Meaning of crater

1. noun A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
2. noun The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
3. noun The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.

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Questions about crater in a sentence

How do you use crater in a sentence?

Crater is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.”

What is a short sentence with crater?

“The planet had a cratered surface.”

What does crater mean?

Crater means a hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.