Saint Helens

British  

noun

1. a town in NW England, in St Helens unitary authority, Merseyside: glass industry. Pop: 102 629 (2001)

2. a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 176 700 (2003 est). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)

3. a volcanic peak in S Washington state; it erupted in 1980 after lying dormant from 1857

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Example Sentences

Kresser said he would have counted Steidl’s attempt if she had gone for Saint Helens without the permit.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022

For example, they learned that at both Mount Saint Helens and Krakatau, primary succession proceeded through stages.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Lee says the government would certainly know how to orchestrate a cover-up, citing reports of soldiers spiriting away Bigfoot bodies after the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2017

Laura Kaminsky’s mainly minimalist score, performed brilliantly by the Saint Helens String Quartet, chugs busily along, with some beautiful lyrical moments – and some cleverly surreal swooping and drooping during Hannah’s disorienting hormonal transformative period.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2016

No nights in the world can be more clear, lustrous, and splendid than those of the mellowing autumn in the valleys of Mount Saint Helens, Mount Hood, and the Columbia.

From The Log School-House on the Columbia by Butterworth, Hezekiah