GLACIER in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for GLACIER, such as:

1. The glacier left many striated rocks.
2. The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
3. Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
4. An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLACIER
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glacier
 n.  a large body of ice which flows under its own mass
Classic Sentence:
1  I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
5  Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  The Pamir is one of the highest mountain ranges on earth - the point where Central Asia rise to meet China and Pakistan among a mass of peak and glacier.
2  The glacier left many striated rocks.
3  The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago. Together, the breaks made a large change that's got the attention of researchers.
4  One of the main reasons for the irreversibility lies in the fact that snow melting on tundra, and sea ice loss from around the glaciers, actually reinforce regional warming, with significant consequences on the glaciers of Northern Canada.