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fjord

[fyawrd, fyohrd, fyohr, fyoor] / fyɔrd, fyoʊrd, fyoʊr, fyʊər /
NOUN
narrow inlet
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK


Example Sentences

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This was followed by a four-hour trip by fishing boat to the entrance of the fjord, before a final dogsled to the base.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

"In winter, everything is white, and if you are flying in a helicopter, for example, and have to monitor an area, you cannot see if a snowmobile has been driven down to a fjord."

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

They placed a ten-kilometer-long fiber-optic cable on the seafloor across the fjord in front of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

Blanchett even took her family to the Arctic Circle over New Year’s and they all leapt into a fjord.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

At the end of the long fjord their cove was on, icebergs calved off the ends of twelve or more glaciers with a roar throughout the days that sent birds screeching up into the air.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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