Sentence examples for glacier was from inspiring English sources
At this point, the glacier was called the "Great Glacier" by CPR promoters.
As recently as 200 years ago almost all of Glacier Bay, a fjord, was covered by the Grand Pacific Glacier; this glacier was more than 4,000 feet (1,200 metres) thick and some 20 miles (32 km) wide.
The glacier was calving fast.
The glacier was colossal.
(Patagonia's most famous glacier was named after him).
"The glacier was pretty healthy in 1921," Mr. Breashears said on Sunday in Beijing.
At that time, the glacier was moving on a geologic scale.
The monitoring showed that Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier was also melting rapidly, but retreating more slowly than Zachariae Isstrom along uphill terrain.
The red, green, yellow and orange leaves framing the gigantic white-with-hints-of-blue- glacier was jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
The newly exposed face of the glacier was a heavenly shade of blue, attained over thousands of years as the ice was compressed and air pockets were eliminated.
The fate of the glacier was discussed by Indian and Pakistani officials during secretive preliminary peace talks under Pakistan's last military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
