Disko
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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These icebergs, some of them skyscraper-size, calve regularly from the glacier front, crash into a deep fiord and float west into Disko Bay.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2024
"Ever since 2001 I noticed the winter seasons in Disko Bay didn't have as much ice," he says.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
A few years ago, a Russian venture capitalist named Dmitry Volkov organized a showdown between Dennett and Chalmers near Disko Island, off the west coast of Greenland.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017
Written sources reported that the Norse routinely rowed up to 1500 kilometers to walrus migratory grounds near Disko Bay in western Greenland.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2016
Harvey would tallow the cup at the end, and carefully bring the sand, shell, sludge, or whatever it might be, to Disko, who fingered and smelt it and gave judgment.
From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard
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