Example Sentences
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The size and makeup of the particles also revealed that the main source of iron was not dust, but icebergs calved from West Antarctica.
From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 2026
Climate change is unlikely to have been behind the birth of A23a because it calved so long ago, before much of the impacts of rising temperatures that we are now seeing.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025
“We’ve had some pretty major erosion at archaeological sites of serious concern — we go out after storm events and sometimes see multiple feet of erosion, big chunks that have calved off at once.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023
I grew up reading Scott's journals, I traced routes from Palmer Station to Queen Maude Land on a map, and I stared for hours at photographs of calved glaciers in the Minnesota Science Museum.
From Salon • May 29, 2023
‘I don’t know. They said I could summon them when the time comes. Maybe Artemis and Apollo can explain -’ A section of the wall calved like a glacier.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
