crater

Example Sentences

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This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.

From Science Daily

Associated Press video from Sunday showed a large crater in the middle of the school, which had sheltered 225 people.

From Seattle Times

They had some good reasons, too: if a huge rock had fallen from the heavens and collided with the Earth, where was the crater?

From Salon

One of the missiles landed in the street, leaving a crater, and the other hit a three-story building, setting it ablaze, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.

From Washington Times

The caldera is dotted with 24 craters and is a much bigger volcano than the nearby Vesuvius, which destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD.

From Reuters