- plural of glacier.
glaciers
Example Sentences
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While the exact cause of the glacial collapse is unclear, climate change is causing glaciers to melt worldwide, increasing the risk of such disasters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Vanishing ice and permafrost make glaciers more prone to snapping and the underlying bedrock more likely to fracture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Petermann is one of Greenland's largest marine-terminating glaciers and helps control the flow of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last Wednesday's deadly floods have laid bare the risks to the nation's hydropower ambitions.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
