fiord

Example Sentences

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These icebergs, some of them skyscraper-size, calve regularly from the glacier front, crash into a deep fiord and float west into Disko Bay.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2024

I booked a private tour of the stunning Milford Sound, a fiord known for its waterfalls and rainforests.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2021

Figure 17.27 Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, is a fiord with well-defined glacial erosion features.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Central to the debate in Greenland is a $2.3 billion project for an iron ore mine by the British-based London Mining Plc near a fiord in Nuuk.

From Reuters • Mar. 10, 2013

That part of the fiord where the waters escape under the thick forest is called Siegdalen, or the valley of the Sieg—the name of the river.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de