Crater

//ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ//

"Crater" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Some of the bluest water in the world is found in Crater Lake.

Curiosity has landed inside the Gale crater.

The Chicxulub crater in Mexico may have been created by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

The surface of Mercury has been shaped by three processes: impact cratering where large objects struck the surface resulting in crater formation, volcanism where lava flooded the surface, and tectonic activity where the planet's crust moved in order to adjust to the planetary cooling and contracting.

A meteorite can make a hole, or crater, in the ground when it hits it. The larger the meteorite, the bigger the hole.

The Barringer Meteorite Crater near Winslow, Arizona is believed to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by the impact of a 300,000 ton meteorite.

There is a crater on the Moon named after Albert Einstein.

Lake Manicouagan, a ring-shaped lake in Quebec, Canada, is all that remains of a crater from a massive impact over 200 million years ago.

The Moon's Mons Hadley Delta is 15,000 feet tall, and makes up part of the rim of a deep crater from an asteroid impact billions of years ago.

Tom was taking a selfie on the edge of the volcano when he lost his footing and fell into the crater.

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But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.

Yup, John McCain said to me the economy “is about to crater.” You folks worried about the economy? Whoo! Not me.

Uber said on Thursday that its ride-hailing business had cratered in the second quarter as people traveled less in the pandemic.

The potential agreement comes after months of disputes that have created existential challenges for Twitter, cratering its share price, demoralizing its employees and spooking the advertisers it relies on for revenue.

But analysts don’t see Mr. Trump’s support cratering over Venezuela anytime soon.

He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.

I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.

She is a charming crater; I would venture to say that, if I was not her father.

‘Then why not stop for fellow-craters—going to thy own father’s house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?’

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