How to Use caldera in a Sentence

caldera

noun
Definition of calderanext
  • An eager Hubbard even flew over the crater while the volcano was still active, nearly being sucked into the superheated caldera by a downdraft.
    — Ben Anderson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2012
  • The size of Kīlauea's summit caldera is about 3 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 12 July 2017
  • Richards said someone falls down the Crater Lake caldera at least once a year.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • The park’s main feature is a six-and-a-half-mile-wide volcanic caldera.
    — Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The pay-off is a view inside a caldera and beyond across the wilderness to Lassen Peak.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Loa petroglyphs or around the steaming rim of the Kīlauea caldera.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2021
  • Sulfur venting from the caldera taints the cold air and stings your nostrils.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • So the caldera could be primed to flood with magma and blow in a human lifetime.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • This is a big volcano and a typical shape of a caldera.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Its sides are sheer and vertical, and on its top is a 100-foot-deep caldera.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Coast Guard said the fall occurred near Rim Village, which is on the southwestern edge of the caldera.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 June 2019
  • The white villages look over a cliff nearly 1,000 feet tall into the caldera.
    — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The hotel is perched overlooking Skaros Rock and the caldera, the Aegean Sea sprawled out to what looks like the ends of the earth below.
    — Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Your hotel is the classic Perivolas—white womblike structures and a pool perched at the edge of the caldera.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 2 June 2021
  • The plan called for a five-hour sail inside the island’s famed caldera, the volcanic bay ringed by steep cliffs.
    — Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The rock from the caldera can then collapse into the magma chamber.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • View its perfection from hiking trails, boat tours, and the 33-mile Rim Drive around the caldera.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Since 2012, and at the time of writing, the Campi Flegrei caldera has been at the yellow alert level, the second of four.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The latter formed the current caldera at Campi Flegrei, which is more than eight miles across.
    — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Cronin is the co-author of a recent study that looked into the caldera’s volcanic past.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The caldera on Fisher is big, a good 11 by 18 kilometers across.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Auberge Resorts Collection, home of the largest swimming pool along the caldera.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Most of the suites offer private plunge pools that overlook the full sweep of the caldera and the dramatic ruin of Skaros Rock.
    — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The sweeping views of the caldera are like watching a moving postcard in slow motion.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The earthquakes have been centred under the summit caldera and off to the northwest of the summit (see above and below).
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This is not the first time this year a person has fallen into a volcanic caldera in the United States.
    — CNN, 11 June 2019
  • Like the main property and the villas, Kirini also has truly epic views of the caldera.
    — Annie Daly, Marie Claire, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Kīlauea Overlook, meanwhile, is a great spot to marvel at the Kīlauea caldera, which measures over two miles across.
    — Kathryn Sarkis, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
  • As the sun begins to set behind the caldera’s cliffs, the sky transforms into a vivid display of red, orange, and pink hues.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Just looking at the geography of Montagu Island betrays its violent past, with the outline of a caldera showing on its icy surface.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

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