tarn

Example Sentences

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Mr Cooper, a climate change photographer from Ambleside, said he was walking in the woods to the north of the tarn when he spotted the table and chairs.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2021

The tarn sits in a granite basin, ringed by grass and rocks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2017

A lake that is confined to a glacial cirque is known as a tarn such as Silver Lake near Brighton Ski resort located in Big Cottonwood Canyon or Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Primum, constat nullum habuisse tarn pugnare: quod exsurrexerunt, quia non debuit.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

“The tarn, is it ‘black and lurid’ enough?”

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury