How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective
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  • In Pakistan, snowmelt caused a glacial lake to flood and wipe out an important bridge.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
  • Along the way, hikers are treated to views of glacial lakes, waterfalls, and wildflowers.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
  • His quartet’s plodding, reverb-rich ambiance evokes Low in a broad way, urgent and raw despite the glacial pace.
    — Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In the world of generative AI, security changes need to happen at warp speed, not a glacial pace.
    — Miles Ward, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There’s her voice, for starters, which is sultry and breathy, marked by a glacial pace that makes Julio and audiences alike become engrossed by her every word.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
  • This coastal plant with the snowy fur is Florida’s latest victim of sea-level rise, fueled by the melting of glacial ice thousands of miles away.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • The focus is on adventure exploration in old-growth forests and glacial outwash fields—guests can kayak or paddleboard beside glaciers or hike and bushwalk in untouched terrain.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Simultaneously, glacial flooding began in the north, where more than seven thousand glaciers provide water for the country.
    — Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
  • The unique flavor profiles of wine produced by grapes grown at an elevation of 5,350 feet in soil composed of glacial deposits are not to be missed by wine lovers.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • In Pakistan, the heat also caused outburst flooding from a glacial lake, destroying a major bridge and a number of buildings, including power plants.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 23 May 2022
  • Other towns have also struggled to rebuild and recover, hampered by a pandemic; by flooding and storms; and by a glacial approval process from government agencies.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Why did the glacial ice not extend all the way across the bay?
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The case has moved along at a glacial pace amid a Covid backlog in the courts.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The deal is one of the first out of Toronto, where the market has moved at glacial pace.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
  • One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
  • Much of Chicago was built on a glacial lakebed, which means very clayey soils.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • Stick to cool or cold drinks, not ones that are a degree or two off glacial.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
  • But this is too important to be left to the glacial pace of COP discussions.
    — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • As a result, millions now live within 30 miles of a glacial lake.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Our leaders’ glacial pace on climate has been their own fault, not ours.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
  • Fittingly, glacial views from the panoramic windows steal the show.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Deep Cove bay connects to a glacial fjord that extends into the rugged North Shore Mountains and out of sight.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Compared to women’s fashion, men’s style has evolved at a glacial pace.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Worse, the glacial pace at which some cities and states count votes is ever more visible to voters.
    — The Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2022
  • His novels are like glacial lakes, carved by the retreating ice of his efforts.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • If man finds no way to switch the glacial thermostat, there may well be a real estate boom in the Sahara.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Alaska’s former glacial ice has added to the level of global seas by more than one-quarter of an inch since the 1950s.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Patients and researchers have already raised alarms about the glacial pace of the NIH’s early long Covid efforts.
    — Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Cox Ledge is an expanse of glacial moranie habitat and is critical to the state’s coastal resources.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023

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