moraine

Example Sentences

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Rising temperatures are making these walls, called moraines, increasingly unstable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Locating these moraines enabled the researchers to map older glacier extents before pilots took their first flyover photos in the early 1930s.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Now, he was on that titular mountain with his fiancée: walking a precarious bridge, crossing jagged moraines and traversing rocky terrain on a nine-day trek to the Everest base camp.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

They attribute the disaster to the failure of the moraines, characterised by loose boulders, rocks and soil at the edge of the glacial lake.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023

The poor man of Sheney dug in the moraines of Tuerresh and unearthed where Meshe pointed a great hoard of ancient jewels, and at sight of it he shouted aloud for joy.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin