glacier
Example Sentences
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Between blocks of talks, attendees partake in activities from the glacier show-and-tell to an iNaturalist BioBlitz in Stanley Park to a field trip to the local Renaissance faire.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
By this stage in April they would normally have fixed the route as far as Camp 3, but are still blocked by the chunk of glacier about 600m below Camp 1.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
He also pushed through a contentious glacier law last week opening parts of the Andes to copper mining.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The front edge of the glacier was made up of frozen cliffs that towered above the waves, and high up, on one of those cliffs, was Roz.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing glacier
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Geological Features
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