Example Sentences

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What about the taxpayers who repeatedly take their cars into the shop because they have dived into craterlike potholes on streets and highways?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022

In June 2019 — Antarctica’s midwinter — the deep, ice-covered lake vanished, leaving a craterlike depression in its place.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

The craterlike Burkes Garden in the southwestern corner of Virginia, a valley completely rimmed by mountains, is another.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2021

Twice as large as Texas, lying in the very heart of Asia, it is a land of mountains and craterlike valleys that seem to have been ripped from the moon.

From Time Magazine Archive

In repose the geyser is a quiet pool, occupying a craterlike depression in a conical mound some twelve feet high.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon