glacial
Example Sentences
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He said the sytem in Northern Ireland moves at a "glacial place" in comparison to other parts of the United Kingdom.
From BBC
Instead, the replacement of a glacial, carbon-rich deep-water mass by newly formed Antarctic Bottom Water appears to have been crucial for the rise in atmospheric CO2 toward the end of the last Ice Age.
From Science Daily
He’ll need it—for on the current trajectory, Russian troops will continue to proceed at a glacial place.
These indicators of past glacial activity, along with Coloe Fossae and the surrounding craters, are visible in the annotated images.
From Science Daily
This person wants two opposing things at once: to move at a glacial pace, to never see another person again, and to reenter the world, to laugh, to reimmerse.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
