séracs
- plural of sérac.
Example Sentences
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Crevassed, broken, a wilderness of towering séracs, it had the look of a sea in a gale whose breakers had been frozen in the very act of over toppling.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
A cluster of séracs on a neighboring icefall showed all their mad chaos.
From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis
From thence we went down to the right of the ridge, and mounted through the "séracs" of the Matterhorngletscher.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
“When you look up at the tumbled pinnacles of those séracs, does it not seem as if Summer had rent in anger with some great ice-axe the huge enemy whom she could not quite destroy?”
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Great séracs loomed up through the darkness, magnified in size and distorted in shape.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
