tarn

Example Sentences

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She wore three pairs of builder's gloves and used a shopping basket to scoop the turtle out, where she transported it to a large container with water from the tarn.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024

The tarn sits in a granite basin, ringed by grass and rocks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2017

After the glacier is gone, the bowl at the bottom of the cirque is often occupied by a lake called a tarn.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Primum, constat nullum habuisse tarn pugnare: quod exsurrexerunt, quia non debuit.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

In one place a forest of giant madrone trees joined their tops over a true tarn, a black, spring-fed lake.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck