Sample Sentences for
glacier
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    Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin.  (source)
    glacier = a large mass of ice
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    all the streams which tumbled down from the glaciers into the main river were so blue,  (source)
    glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
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    He told us about the Ice Age, when the great glaciers crept down from the north, scouring the earth, forcing valleys into the greatest mountains.  (source)
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    The glacier was blue and white with streaks of black, so that it looked like a hedge of dirty snow left behind on a sidewalk after a snowplow had gone by, only four million times as large.  (source)
    glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
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    Alessandro had never liked walking on glaciers, even in a roped party of three or four:  (source)
    glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
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    Morrel expected Villefort would be dejected; he found him as he had found him six weeks before, calm, firm, and full of that glacial politeness, that most insurmountable barrier which separates the well-bred from the vulgar man.  (source)
    glacial = the main building (or buildings) of government
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    We're moving, glacially though, so I have plenty of time to look, and it seems to me that I've seen that dress before, I've seen someone wearing it.†  (source)
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    They stand there, motionless: the woman as though she had reached the end of a long journey and now among strange faces and surroundings waits, quiet, glacierlike, like something made of stone and painted, and the calm, rapt yet latently furious and dirty old man.†  (source)
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    ... a man who had been frozen in the Alps and then fallen into a glacier and his bride was going to wait twenty-four years exactly for his body to come out on the moraine,  (source)
    glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
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    She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life-in-death.  (source)
    glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
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    But his frustration at the glacial pace of change in his city had worn on him.†  (source)
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    Amy, of course, was a whirling dervish of doing—pack, store, toss—while I sifted through my father's things glacially.†  (source)
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    The water felt like a glacier melting against my legs.†  (source)
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