Example Sentences

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Madison, the Wisconsin capital, stands on a morainal isthmus between two glacial lakes, which are not small.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015

When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front to roll toward Coney on the outwash plain.

From Time Magazine Archive

These occur not only high up amid the bare peaks where their basins were excavated by the flowing ice, but also in the lower valleys where the ancient ice-streams built morainal dams.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.

From Canyons of the Colorado by Powell, John Wesley

All day long the boat propelled through a diversified country, covered with morainal heaps—great hills of drift matter, heaps of worn pebbles and rolling plains of estuarine sediment.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.