How to Use karst in a Sentence

karst

noun

• The retention ponds built on those courses can leak into the karst and trigger sinkholes.
  — Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
• But thermokarst is far more unstable than limestone karst.
  — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
• There are 1,474 karst features throughout Camp Bullis, ranging from small cracks and crevices to slits in the earth, that deposit water into the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
• The Edwards Plateau is a land of karst, a term for rock, typically limestone, dissolved into caves and pits.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2016
• Start the day early on a long-tail boat and savor your breakfast in the center of one of these towering karsts, kayak through mangroves, and hop around to the nearby islets.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 23 May 2019
• The karsts are full of nooks and crannies that have nurtured highly specialized plants and animals found nowhere else.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• Enshi contains a karst cave system with numerous bats in its 37 miles of passages.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• Below ground level, nearly half of Slovenia is composed of porous karst leading to a labyrinth of limestone caves.
  — Alex Crevar, National Geographic, 4 May 2019
• The caves are more popular with local trekkers and cavers, though they're carved from limestone rock—the stuff that makes Thailand's famed karsts—and face erosion, per a Forbes article on the science of the system.
  — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2018
• Sixteen lakes stretch over a portion of the park, and they've been made breathtakingly beautiful by what is known as karst processes.
  — Caroline Alkire, House Beautiful, 13 Feb. 2017
• The destruction of karsts at the hands of cement companies, developers and tourists is a problem throughout the region.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• Foliage clings, improbably, to dramatic karst formations that rise out of the sea like shards of green glass on Misool’s edge.
  — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Kentucky and bluegrass go together like Sea and Biscuit, and the byway has plenty of both: The karst and phosphate-rich soil is the special sauce in raising prizewinning thoroughbreds.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
• The normally moist soil of Florida has a stabilizing effect on karst.
  — Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
• For long stretches, hikers plod across karst limestone slabs jutting out at tenuous angles.
  — Alex Crevar, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• Knauth began exploring desert karsts in the 1980s as a young geology professor building his lab at Arizona State.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• Initial examination of the karst feature in early February showed that the limestone bed that forms the cave ceiling was scored and thinner where the utility lines were installed.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• Many of the world's clothes hangers originate in two-story warehouses on the road to Lipu, a steamy town in southern China where the river flows between towering karst formations and vendors sell the sweetest taro.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• What archaeologists haven’t known for sure, because of the small-scale nature of most excavations so far, is how all those people clustered among the rolling karst and seasonal wetlands of northern Guatemala.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
• The quake occurred at about 9:20 p.m. near Jiuzhaigou, or Jiuzhai Valley, a national park known for spectacular waterfalls and karst formations, the Chinese agency said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• The quake occurred around 9:20 p.m. near Jiuzhaigou, or Jiuzhai Valley, a national park known for spectacular waterfalls and karst formations, the Chinese agency said.
  — Time, 9 Aug. 2017
• Chinese investors, inspired by the picturesque location — its dramatic karst topography and lush growth have been the source of countless Chinese landscape paintings — approached the architect with the idea of a resort hotel.
  — Reed Kroloff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Above the surface, Raja Ampat's dramatic karst topography -- think southern Thailand without a thousand hotels -- is ripe for jungle walks and rock climbing.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2017
• The telescope is located in Puerto Rico's karst region, which serves as an important water source and contains the island's richest biodiversity.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
  — The Economist, 19 May 2018
• Krabi’s beautiful coastline, lapped by impossibly green water studded with limestone karsts, serves as the backdrop for this peaceful property.
  — Alisha Prakash, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• These other users included Nonn, who decided to pursue a PhD in environmental science with a focus on the biology of rare endemic geckos living at limestone karsts.
  — Tibor Krausz, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
• Drilling also affects the delicate hydrological system of the karst, the limestone formations where prehistoric paintings are usually found.
  — 1843, 20 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024