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"Glacial" in a Sentence (23 examples)
Glacial meltwater is not purer than other types of water.
Glacial water gets its colour from rock flour.
No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.
There are three glacial fjords in Ireland.
Glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOFs, are increasing in frequency as climate change increases the rate of glacial melting.
In a 2016 interview from the Everest basecamp, Dr. Nima Namgyal Sherpa told VOA that in the past, the glacial streams in the mid-Everest region started flowing in May, but the Sherpas now see the flow beginning in April.
The melted snowpack seeps down to fill mountainside indentations to form glacial lakes.
The melting of glaciers has put cities like Huaraz at risk of what scientists call a “glof,” or glacial lake outburst flood.
There are more than a thousand glacial lakes on the Tibetan Plateau, with more than 130 larger than 0.1 square kilometer in Nepal alone.
This project runs at a glacial pace.
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We examined the glacial deposits.
Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.
Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.
He could remember a day that he had spent the whole of (he couldn't have been more than ten) running one of the great, creaking freight elevators at a glacial speed, answering the calls of the bell—one ring, five rings, three rings—with an almost unbearable sense of responsibility.
I understand that you commented that the Japanese are moving at glacial speed. This is not the only area where they are moving at glacial speed. They are moving at glacial speed in terms of trade barriers, and it is one thing that the American people recognize.
Paradoxically, then, the electronic speed offered by computer-based decision-making is often overwhelmed by the glacial speed of data reformatting and checking.
By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.
Progress on judicial reform has been glacial, meeting enormous resistance.
Lower-level people added front-line information that ordinarily wouldn't have made it up the hierarchy to the executive committee (or would have made it at glacial speed).
The Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are modernizing but at a glacial speed in a world moving at digital speed.
After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial.
On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle.
He gave me a glacial stare.
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