cirque

Example Sentences

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In its early years, it was located smack in the middle of the grounds, a beaconing festival-goers with beats, cirque performances and the all-important misters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2024

This mile-long paved trail, which goes by bogs, meadows and waterfalls, leads to a stunning lake in a cirque surrounded by mountains.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

The trail takes you through aspen, birch and pine groves until it reaches a small basalt column cirque with a peaceful waterfall.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

It was a wilder place with water cascading unpredictably from a glacial tundra cirque.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2020

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer