cirque

Example Sentences

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In its early years, it was located smack in the middle of the grounds, a beaconing festival-goers with beats, cirque performances and the all-important misters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2024

The trail takes you through aspen, birch and pine groves until it reaches a small basalt column cirque with a peaceful waterfall.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

At the time, between 10,000 and 6,300 years ago, there was limited sediment accumulation in Delta Lake that suggests a reduction in meltwater coming from the cirque above.

From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2020

One day trip to a stunning, high-alpine cirque allows you to bear witness to this whole spectacle, from aspens to tundra.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer