How to Use glacier in a Sentence

glacier

noun

• The Last Frontier is home to the most glaciers in the U.S.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
• The sound had been a chunk of ice sloughing off the side of the ancient glacier.
  — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
• There’s the sense of the glacier being something alive.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• Ice shelves are tongues of ice that jut out into the ocean at the end of glaciers.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• One side of the butt will have a fat cap on it that covers the meat like a glacier.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Love the idea of riding over a glacier, but don't love the idea of doing it in the cold?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2022
• The same thing happens to the land when the weight of a glacier disappears.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• Always there’s noise — the creak of the shifting glacier, the push of the steady wind, the crack of trees snapping in the deep freeze.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• The top of the glacier is about 3 miles below the mountain’s summit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2021
• For much of the year, its glaciers are blanketed in fresh snow.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
• This small glacier and lake can’t be seen from the Cascade Canyon trail at the bottom of the canyon.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The best place to find old water, of course, is inside a glacier.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• Patrick Shiflea of Palmer has been biking to the glacier since 2011.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
• White guilt comes with the white skin; the evil is frozen in time—like the sin of Adam, like the woolly mammoth in the glacier.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• The retreat of the glacier would provide a time series for them.
  — Jonathan Moens, Wired, 27 Nov. 2021
• In 2016, the bodies of Lowe and Bridges finally emerged from the glacier they’d been trapped in.
  — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2021
• The 14-week-old Alaskan husky is white as a cloud with eyes as blue as a glacier and a heart warm enough to melt one.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• Don’t expect to see a glacier calve, whales feeding, or for your trip to match the brochure.
  — Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
• But the glacier had melted into a lake of slush and icebergs when the duo reached it.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
• What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
  — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• Switzerland's glaciers have shed 2.4% of their volume over the past year.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• During that brief boost, the glacier pushed forward 4 miles in less than a year.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 Apr. 2021
• The heat is causing the Alps’ breathtaking glaciers to melt at a record pace.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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 remains of a man who died in 2001 have been revealed by a melting glacier.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Swiss glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining mass in the past two years, the report says.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Liquid Alaska offers canoe tours that go across the lake to bring you to the face of the glacier and across the top of the ice.
  — Mollie Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
• At 367 square miles, Langjökull is the second-largest glacier in Iceland.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
• On a cruise to Alaska, my husband, my 24-year-old daughter and I decided to splurge for a helicopter ride to see a glacier.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
• The glaciers ground surface rock into fine sediment, which flowed rapidly into the oceans, Archibald said in a statement.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025