How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective
  • Progress on the bill has been glacial.
  • The glacial, half-mile stretch to the banks of the Ohio was the last leg to freedom.
    — Sarah Haselhorst, The Enquirer, 30 July 2020
  • 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
  • In La Libertad, the beat of the day slows down to a glacial pace.
    — Sean Patrick Flynn, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
  • The deal is one of the first out of Toronto, where the market has moved at glacial pace.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Seals, whales and fish swim in the frigid, glacial waters that lap its shores.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Seals, whales and fish swim in the frigid, glacial waters that lap its shores.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
  • The site in the rolling, glacial terrain is blessed with cold, spring water.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Stay near the vast glacial moraine at the heart of Skaftafell National Park.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The union has been on strike for four weeks with talks of a deal moving at a glacial pace.
    — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Much of Chicago was built on a glacial lakebed, which means very clayey soils.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • The big mountains of the High Peaks Wilderness rise on the horizon, glacial and white, the sky smoky with clouds.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Stick to cool or cold drinks, not ones that are a degree or two off glacial.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Of that 3 percent, about two-thirds is frozen in the world’s melting glacial ice.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
  • About how much of the Earth's landmass is covered with glacial ice?
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • The storm had hit on Sunday, moving at a glacial pace of one mile per hour.
    — Patrick Oppmann and Jaide Garcia, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • My work suggests that progress along these lines is glacial at best.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada.
    — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
  • But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
  • At some point, glacial progress spills over into anger.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • But change moves at a glacial pace in the world of professional sports.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The filing details the glacial pace of progress on a structure that the city would prefer not to build at all.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The Alps lost half their glacial ice since the 1800s, and most of what remains will likely be gone by the end of the century.
    — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Progress seems to be glacial in many places, but the momentum in Australia is not just slow.
    — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Moving at a glacial pace isn’t an adage that works anymore.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Huge boulders — referred to as glacial erratics that were carried by glaciers during the last Ice Age — dot the landscape that’s forested with red maple, spruce and Canadian hemlock.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

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