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• Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.From the entry damage
• The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.From the entry calve
• The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched.From the entry calve
• The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.From the entry divide
• Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.From the entry educate
• In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.From the entry loss
• The equipment shows how much the glacier has moved and the amount it dropped in height over the summer.From the entry drop
• On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.From the entry wooden
• The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.From the entry climbing
• Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.From the entry glacial
• Moraines are found at the downhill end of a glacier.From the entry downhill
• I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers.From the entry genuinely
• Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt.2022 April 22, Toyin Owoseje, “Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry Tanzania
• “We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.2022 February 2, Ian Joughin, quotee, “Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ keeps scientists at bay with iceberg and sea ice”, in The Guardian. From the entry Chicken Little
• Third Pole glaciers are critical to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns. From the entry critical
• Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface.2014, James H. Dickson, Robert E. Johnson, “Mosses and the beginning of plant succession on the Walker Glacier, southeastern Alaska”, in…. From the entry glacier mouse
• Ahead, about two hundred yards into the glacier, toward the headwall, is a bald spot.2013, Christopher White, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, →ISBN. From the entry bald spot
• According to the debris at the terminal end of the glacier, the ice cap is stable.2006, L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson, editors, Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude…. From the entry Guliya
• He deserved better than being frozen like a Popsicle under that glacier.2005, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos, Lost City, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 514. From the entry best of the bunch
• Calculations show that the glacier responds fairly quickly to such changes.1989 January, A. N. Salamatin, A. B. Mazo, “Dynamics of a nonstationary dome glacier in the two-dimensional approximation”, in Journal of…. From the entry névé
• The polsters give the glacier the appearance of a cobble-strewn surface.1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, pages…. From the entry polster
• Below the glacier, within the polynya, two rivers flow, a river of salt and a river of earth.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 237. From the entry polynya
• Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species.2020 May 22, Nell Greenfieldboyce, “Herd Of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientists”, in NPR. From the entry glacier mouse
• Fiords with tidewater glaciers also contain glacial ice.2019, J. N. Moum, W. D. Smyth, “Upper Ocean Mixing”, in J. Kirk Cochran, Henry J. Bokuniewicz, Patricia L. Yager, editors, Encyclopedia of…. From the entry fjord
• Scientists say it is one of the world’s fastest-melting glaciers.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns. From the entry fastest
• Sea days on Alaskan cruises are a bit more destination-oriented, with the ships visiting glaciers and areas known for exemplary whale-watching.2006, Heidi Sarna, Cruise Vacations For Dummies, page 85. From the entry sea day
• Andean glaciers reach sea level in this region, which is one of the four major fjorded coasts on earth.1998, Jan Knippers Black, Latin America, Its Problems and Its Promise. From the entry fjorded
• Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161. From the entry slot
• Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers. From the entry fossilize
• Raging down the glacier valleys from the polar plateau, the Katabatic winds unleash Condition One: blizzard, superfrost and white outs.1982, Crawford Kilian, Icequake, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 275. From the entry superfrost
• Glacier glasses take care of the bright sun.1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9. From the entry glacier glasses
• A fine glacier descends from Mount Longstaff.1913, Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, Volume 1, Chapter 16. From the entry cwm
• A glacier moves like a fluid, though a very stiff, viscous fluid; its motion may therefore be rightly called viscoid.1902, Joseph Le Conte, “Chapter II: Aqueous agencies”, in Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, 4th…. From the entry viscoid
• I gazed from the railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom, a pilgrim bearing witness to end-times in the temple of the glaciers.2022 November 22, Tom Kizzia, “End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers”, in The New York Times. From the entry end-times
• The EAIS is far larger than the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), which hosts the so-called “doomsday” Thwaites glacier, which has lost significant stability.2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry EAIS
• The glacier bears heaviest at the foot of the steepest part where it scoops out a plunge basin that fills with a glacial lake.2019 July 16, Doug Wheat, Walks of Life: your Journey back to nature, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN. From the entry cyclopean stairs
• On July 17, a glacier in Rutog county in western Tibet suddenly slid, causing one of the largest ice avalanches ever documented.2016 September 8, Kata Karáth, “Climate change could be to blame for an unusual avalanche in Tibet that can be seen from space”, in…. From the entry Rutog

Meaning of glacier

1. noun A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
2. noun An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
3. noun Something that moves very slowly.

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Questions about glacier in a sentence

How do you use glacier in a sentence?

Glacier is used as a noun. For example: “They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.”

What is a short sentence with glacier?

“A fine glacier descends from Mount Longstaff.”

What does glacier mean?

Glacier means a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.