glacier

Example Sentences

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High glaciers give it vital water reserves, a rarity in Central Asia, which is predominantly a desert region thousands of miles from the sea.

From Barron's

During an ice age, glaciers and ice sheets expand, and varying temperatures cause these ice masses to repeatedly advance and shrink.

From Science Daily

Local residents had complained that exploration work had contaminated the water supply, threatened tourism and risked hastening the melting of glaciers, Kyrgyz media reported earlier this year.

From Barron's

This led to record melting of Alpine glaciers, with more than five cubic kilometers of ice disappearing, it said.

From Seattle Times

The Statz family farm is in the Driftless Area, a fertile, rolling swath of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa untouched by ice age glaciers and the rocky “drift” they left as they retreated.

From New York Times