How to Use calve in a Sentence

calve

verb

• The cow calved in the barn.
• As the glacier flows out to sea, icebergs calve off the ocean-facing end of the ice shelf.
  — Sarah Gibbens, Environment, 28 Dec. 2020
• The wet whoosh of whale breath joined the thunder cracks of calving glaciers and the rumbles of avalanches.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• The giant pancake of Malaspina Glacier does not calve into the ocean.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2021
• This process causes the glacier to become top-heavy and thus more likely to calve.
  — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 26 July 2019
• As ice melts and glaciers calve into the sea, the total mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet decreases.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2014
• First, the Porcupine caribou herd does not calve in the 10-02 area every year.
  — Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
• The herd does not always calve in the same area, but over the years has often favored the 1002 area just opened for oil extraction.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2018
• The area is home to calving caribou, polar bears and other wildlife.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2019
• The first newborn right whale of the winter calving season has been spotted off the coast of Georgia.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• Ludovico even played the piece live on Arctic waters, as glaciers calved in the distance.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
• The choppers land at the pale-blue Uzon Caldera, visit hot springs, and do a flyover of the Gorely volcano, caves, and calving glaciers.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2018
• The herd migrates from calving grounds north of Dillingham to winter range southeast of Bethel.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
• Wildlife: This year’s elk calves are now being born (late May into early June is the peak time for calving).
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
• The fjords of Prince Williams Sound echo like thunder as glaciers calve off into the sea at an ever increasing rate.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• Back at the ranch, heifers would start calving in a month, and wildflowers would begin to bloom, a rhythm, Church said, that will always be a part of him.
  — Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• There was still fair snow on the ground at the time when the cows normally move across the Richardson Highway and trek into the edge of the Talkeetna Mountains to calve.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• As late as the 1980s, tourists on boats could see icebergs from Muir Glacier calving into the bay, but today Muir no longer meets the tidewater.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The glacier is calving, or shedding ice, which Pierce said slowed responders in reaching the bodies.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2019
• In the above video, a small calving event—where a piece of the iceberg breaks off the larger whole—triggers some sizable waves, although these waves do not threaten the shore.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2018
• Recording the glacier's calving four times a day with a pair of autonomous lasers, dubbed Atlas.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Electric fences can keep bears, wolves and coyotes out of calving and lambing pastures.
  — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• As glaciers calve more icebergs into the ocean, the large chunks of floating ice can be hazardous to both ships and oil operations.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
• In this video, a pod of humpback whales can be seen migrating past South Africa to the warmer waters of Australia for breeding and calving.
  — Delaney Chambers, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2016
• Over the course of 40 years of explorations across the Alaskan interior, Adams attuned his ears to the music of birds, of calving glaciers, and of frozen tundra.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2015
• Other scientists say calving events like this, even of this scale, are normal for ice sheets.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 12 July 2017
• At one of the countless small lakes that pepper the region, chunks of shoreline that include what had been permafrost have calved off toward the water.
  — Henry Fountain, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2017
• The action began last month — March 2020, of all times — when the Hubble telescope spotted at least one chunk of the comet breaking off like a calving iceberg.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Elk, bison and moose also calve during this period, so give the parents and their offspring a wide berth.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• Norton and her staffers deleted information about how often the Porcupine herd calved in the coastal plain and left out the data showing the lower survival rates of calves born outside that area.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024