How to Use geyser in a Sentence
geyser
noun- The water shot into the sky in an enormous geyser.
- The water from the geyser rises as high as 75 feet.
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The geyser is known to have erupted 56 times since then.
— USA TODAY, 27 June 2019 -
Ear Spring isn’t the first dormant geyser to come to life this year.
— Fox News, 22 Sep. 2018 -
The boardwalk at the base of the hill has been covered by the geyser's outwash.
— Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018 -
Rangers later found Siemers’ shoe, a hat and a beer can near the geyser.
— Matthew Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019 -
Rangers later found Siemers' shoe, a hat and a beer can near the geyser.
— CBS News, 1 Oct. 2019 -
The instant the cap was off, a geyser of pale goo spurted out.
— Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Haven't had your fill of craters, moons, and space geysers?
— Shannon Stirone, WIRED, 2 June 2018 -
Sunday’s eruption marked the sixth in June and the 24th this year for the world’s tallest active geyser.
— USA TODAY, 27 June 2019 -
Then a fire geyser shot above the crater’s lip, red-orange and slopping.
— Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 -
The powerful geyser took crews about two hours to shut off.
— Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019 -
When the crack began to seal up, the geyser that resulted was even taller.
— Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 8 May 2018 -
Many wells tap heat from geysers or hot springs close to the surface.
— IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024 -
Every time the Bighorns scored, a geyser would erupt behind an end zone.
— John Walters, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2016 -
At present, the area where the geyser is has no trees due to the hot, alkaline-rich discharge from it.
— Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2020 -
Among them is Old Faithful, the world-famous geyser that erupts about 17 times a day.
— Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2021 -
It should be buried 30 centimeters in the ground next to a bubbling geyser.
— Claire Volkman, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Iñárritu speaks in a geyser of ideas, one blurring into the next.
— Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022 -
The Steamboat geyser, which shoots water up to 300 feet in the air, can go decades between blasts.
— Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018 -
They were greeted by a geyser of steam as tall as a telephone pole shooting out of the hole.
— ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020 -
In one case, the high-pressure water burst upward as a geyser.
— Ian Palmer, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022 -
Her hands would curl into tight fists, and vomit would shoot out of her mouth like a geyser.
— Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019 -
Hear the roar of the mighty Gullfoss waterfall and visit the Geysir hot spring, the namesake of all the world’s geysers.
— National Geographic, 17 June 2019 -
But then the money, lots of it, began gushing, and all the other leagues rushed to the revenue geyser.
— Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021 -
About 6 miles away, hot ash began spewing from the ground in a colossal geyser.
— Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021 -
The emerging gas is full of dark dust and shoots up through cracks in the ice similar to a fountain or geyser.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2024 -
In the case of geysers, high pressures keep the deep water from boiling over.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2023 -
However, no other geyser in the basin was as well policed.
— Drew Magary, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Observations from Earth and orbiting probes suggest that some of this water works through fissures in the ice and blasts through in geysers over a hundred miles high.
— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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