cirque

Example Sentences

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In its early years, it was located smack in the middle of the grounds, a beaconing festival-goers with beats, cirque performances and the all-important misters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2024

The trail takes you through aspen, birch and pine groves until it reaches a small basalt column cirque with a peaceful waterfall.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

It was a wilder place with water cascading unpredictably from a glacial tundra cirque.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2020

When we crested a ridge and reached the dry side of the island, the clouds broke and we could see the mountain town of Cilaos, named for the cirque that surrounds it, far below.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2019

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer