crater
crater-like
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a word derived from
crater.
Example Sentences
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To locate the tunnel, forces repeated an Israeli tactic used elsewhere in the strip, overturning mounds of red earth to produce a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
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
But the place is in a deep crater-like hollow, where the stream courses between cliffs of the old red sandstone, and can only be approached by the steepest "pitches."
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
