crater
crater-like
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a word derived from
crater.
Example Sentences
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The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
Tucson’s crater-like monument notwithstanding, these impacts feel less like the strikes of meteors than the devastations of a cancer devouring us from within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The caldera is a crater-like depression around 5km across.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 18, 2022
When traffic practically vanished during the very first strict months of Italy’s pandemic lockdown, road crews had a rare opportunity to work 24/7 filling crater-like potholes without causing tie-ups.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
“But you kin interdooce me instead,” he added, with a crater-like smile.
From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
