tarn
Example Sentences
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An invasive alligator snapping turtle has been pulled from a Cumbrian tarn.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024
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
I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015
Primum, constat nullum habuisse tarn pugnare: quod exsurrexerunt, quia non debuit.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
