How to Use meltwater in a Sentence

meltwater

noun

• Dear Tom, Glaciers are melting, and the meltwater ends up in the oceans.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• While the tides stopped in Russell Fjord, the meltwater from glaciers did not.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2019
• In the high meltwater years, the ocean is also just warmer overall, the study found.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
• There were just a few gray-green pools of meltwater at the bottom.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Think of an ice cube sliding across the counter on its own meltwater.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• Our boots plunged deeply into the slushy snow, and puddles of meltwater pooled up along the tents.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• Among the worst is meltwater from glaciers, ice sheets and ice caps that account for a third of the planet’s sea rise.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2017
• That means there’s both more meltwater and more space to store that water.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The meltwater will cool beers at the taproom all season long.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• At the edges of the ice sheet, that translates to gushing rivers and limpid blue pools of meltwater dotting the ice’s surface.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
• In the early years of retreat, a glacier produces a surge of meltwater, swelling streams.
  — Tim Appenzeller, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
• During warmer months, meltwater pools into lakes and streams on the surface of the ice sheet.
  — Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• The land is paper-flat and crisscrossed by rivers bulging with meltwater from the Himalaya.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Most of these glacial meltwater streams are little creeks less than a mile long, but not the mighty Onyx River.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2018
• The meltwater drains downward and forms cracks that can cause ice shelf collapse.
  — Gary Griggs, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2017
• Throughout the spring and summer, the basin fills with rain and meltwater until the water builds enough pressure to crack through the ice.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The meltwater fills the depression left behind by the glacier, forming what’s known as a glacial lake.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• The angle of the roof directs the flow of rain and meltwater from ice or snow, allowing the water to run down toward the edges or eaves of the roof.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024
• At the same time, during the summer months, meltwater from inland areas can flow all the way to the base of glaciers that end in the sea and pour into the fjords.
  — Author: Chris Mooney, Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2021
• As the ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which further slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• But as the ice shrivels, the system passes a tipping point and the flow of meltwater declines.
  — Tim Appenzeller, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
• Some of it was covered in sand and dirt from crashing against the coast, while larger floes had pools of turquoise meltwater on top.
  — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017
• Buy a cheap Playmate to keep your drinks cool, then top it up with meltwater from your main cooler.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 15 June 2022
• The rush of meltwater may be ominous, but Mullen is also alert to its beauty.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Large drops of meltwater hang from the ceiling, warping like drips from a slow-leaking faucet.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Ice can build up on sloped roofs at the eaves and prevent meltwater drainage, which can cause roof and gutter damage.
  — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• With the North Sea dammed, the rivers that then drained into it, including the Rhine and the Thames, started to form a large lake, also swollen with meltwaters from the glacier.
  — Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• About a fifth of the world's fresh surface water resides in the Great Lakes — the legacy of ice sheets that gouged out basins and filled them with meltwater at the end of the last ice age.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2013
• The vault was threatened by a flood of meltwater from thawing permafrost in 2017, highlighting the dangers posed by climate change, according to the statement.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
• Then, over the summer, meltwater gently flows to an outlet at the bottom corner of the pit, passing through filters that remove any grit or dirt, and finally the chilly water heads to a heat exchanger.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024