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

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