How to Use volcano in a Sentence
volcano
noun- The volcano last erupted 25 years ago.
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And last but not least Alas, the volcano will erupt no more.
— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024 -
First, the volcano spewed stones high into the air, which rained down on the city.
— Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024 -
The thin tortilla chips were just right for the volcano blast of smoky cheese.
— Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2022 -
The volcano will be destroyed to make space for new rooms.
— Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 17 July 2024 -
The eruption came from a volcano that is more than 12 miles wide.
— Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.
— Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023 -
The Ojo del Salado in Chile is the highest volcano in the world.
— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2022 -
Adding to the uniqueness, of course, is the venue: a literal volcano.
— Chris Johns, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2022 -
The film’s tour de force is that showdown at the base of Iceland’s Hekla volcano.
— Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022 -
One day, the family learns that Nia is ill … and is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment.
— Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024 -
At the end of November, an eruption sent a flow of lava down the side of the volcano.
— Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022 -
The land around the Rano Raraku volcano sustained the most damage.
— Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022 -
New photos and footage have emerged of the northern lights putting on a show in the background as a volcano erupts in the foreground.
— Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
The volcano moved as much matter in a few hours as the world’s rivers delivered into the oceans in a whole year.
— Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Don't forget to cut the volcano designs out of black felt and apply green body paint to your face.
— Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2022 -
Today, hikers and mountaineers set off to the volcano for the day-long adventure to climb to the top.
— oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2022 -
Pluto’s strange weather also gives the team a way to estimate the age of the volcano.
— Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023 -
The whole crew can hike to a volcano, zip line through the jungle, or relax on a secluded beach—all in the same day.
— Laura Ratliff, Country Living, 3 Mar. 2023 -
While the volcanoes may steal the show, there are other parts of the park that are worth visiting, too.
— Kathleen Wong, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2024 -
Authorities asked the public not to visit the area of the volcano.
— Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023 -
But the event wasn’t instantaneous – for the first 18 hours or so, the volcano belched smoke and debris into the air.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 July 2024 -
In the mist are the lower slopes of a dormant volcano called Haleakalā, which rises more than ten thousand feet from the sea.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 -
The Sutter Buttes are the remnants of a volcano that was active more than 1.4 million years ago.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024 -
Perhaps this is why Etna is one of the world's most active volcanos.
— Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023 -
When magma erupts from a volcano or flows from the Earth through a crust fracture, lava forms.
— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024 -
Vortices in clouds caused by the volcanoes of the South Sandwich Islands.
— Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Glaciers sit atop active volcano zones — the island exists in the extremes.
— Hannah Hall, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023 -
There are fresh reasons to go, including a burgeoning wine scene that benefits from wide swaths of fertile ground around the Popocatépetl volcano, some 40 miles west of the city limits.
— Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024 -
Nature lovers can go snorkeling, volcano hiking, diving, kayaking, and whale watching.
— Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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