cirque

Example Sentences

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Mann also took her cues from Teatro ZinZanni, a cirque entertainment show inside the Lotte Hotel Seattle that is celebrating 25 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 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

One day trip to a stunning, high-alpine cirque allows you to bear witness to this whole spectacle, from aspens to tundra.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

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