glacier

Example Sentences

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The change to the glacier law sparked protests by environmentalists, who clashed with police outside Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Over the next six decades, as the glacier retreated, the wedge expanded into a long finger, and the size of the lake grew twelvefold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Austria's largest glacier, the Pasterze in Carinthia, also continues to shrink.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

"Exposed rock ledges, sections of ice breaking away and glacier tongues collapsing in on themselves are increasingly shaping the landscape."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

I was slipping away, or breaking away, like a crumbling glacier cracking from the continent and drifting out to sea.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely