Sentence examples for at a glacial rate from inspiring English sources

The southern flank of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii, a possible location of a future giant landslide, is continually in motion without posing any danger, sliding at a glacial rate of three to four inches a year.

According to theory, planets in such distant orbits move so slowly that they should grow at a glacial rate and top out at masses well short of Jupiter's before the disk disperses.

We live in an age where it is perfectly acceptable to toss uneaten foodstuffs and wilted flowers along with non-recyclables to spend their dank days on earth decomposing at a glacial rate.

After observing the whole process, its rate of successful and scaled innovation, Gawande writes, "would be enviable in medicine, where innovations commonly spread at a glacial pace".

The queue moved at a glacial pace.

At times the game moved at a glacial pace.

Our culture is stubborn; it changes at a glacial pace.

Even a month would be enviable in medicine, where innovations commonly spread at a glacial pace.

A single trial finally began this autumn, but is proceeding at a glacial pace.

Even, perhaps especially, in a crisis, Europe moves at a glacial pace.

At a glacial pace, compromise after compromise has been forced upon progress.