How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective
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  • Progress on the bill has been glacial.
  • Why did the glacial ice not extend all the way across the bay?
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The case has moved along at a glacial pace amid a Covid backlog in the courts.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The deal is one of the first out of Toronto, where the market has moved at glacial pace.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Much of Chicago was built on a glacial lakebed, which means very clayey soils.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • Stick to cool or cold drinks, not ones that are a degree or two off glacial.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
  • But this is too important to be left to the glacial pace of COP discussions.
    — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • As a result, millions now live within 30 miles of a glacial lake.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Our leaders’ glacial pace on climate has been their own fault, not ours.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
  • Fittingly, glacial views from the panoramic windows steal the show.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Deep Cove bay connects to a glacial fjord that extends into the rugged North Shore Mountains and out of sight.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Compared to women’s fashion, men’s style has evolved at a glacial pace.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Worse, the glacial pace at which some cities and states count votes is ever more visible to voters.
    — The Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2022
  • His novels are like glacial lakes, carved by the retreating ice of his efforts.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • If man finds no way to switch the glacial thermostat, there may well be a real estate boom in the Sahara.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Alaska’s former glacial ice has added to the level of global seas by more than one-quarter of an inch since the 1950s.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Patients and researchers have already raised alarms about the glacial pace of the NIH’s early long Covid efforts.
    — Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Cox Ledge is an expanse of glacial moranie habitat and is critical to the state’s coastal resources.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • Clark doesn’t believe those extra seconds would drag the game back to its former glacial pace.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • Among its more than two dozen glaciers, the mountain is likely to have lost an area of glacial ice that’s nearly the size of Manhattan.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • Heavy rains and a glacial lake outburst flood combined in 2013 in India to kill thousands of people.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • These bears hunt on the fresh glacial ice that has more peaks and valleys than the flatter sea ice, often in house- or car-sized bergs, called bergy bits, Moon said.
    — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 16 June 2022
  • Bush’s most recent studio album moves at a glacial pace.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 July 2022
  • What led to the glacier lake outburst flood A glacial lake outburst flood occurs when a dam containing a glacial lake breaks.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Despite a 2018 law that required the state to clear cannabis convictions, many counties have moved at glacial speeds.
    — Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Progress for Black Americans in Kentucky was moving at a glacial pace.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
  • The glacial lake would cover almost 3,000 square miles and hold as much water as Lake Ontario and Lake Erie combined.
    — Keely Larson, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yes, the soft green stuff growing on walls and rocks and trees, patches and carpets that grow at a glacial pace, that harken back to an ancient, pre-human world.
    — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Worshippers trek to the cave along two routes through lush green meadows and rocky and forested mountain passes with a view of glacial lakes and snowy peaks.
    — Aijaz Hussain, ajc, 9 July 2022

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