How to Use berg in a Sentence

berg

noun
  • And, that’s before riding out onto the lake to check out the bergs.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • To preserve their piece of the berg, the museum chose to dry it rather than freeze or pickle it.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The tasting room is the tip of the ice berg of changes the Jonses have recently made.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Medium bergs can be as big as a large ferry, while a very large berg is the size of several skyscrapers.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017
  • The bergs blocked the normal flow and formation of sea ice and messed with the ocean’s primary production of food.
    — Nadia Drake, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2014
  • First Officer William Murdoch attempted to turn the ship to swing it past the berg.
    — Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The calving is not directly linked to climate change, experts say; bergs break away naturally.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Typically, to tow an iceberg a special towing vessel will surround the ‘berg with a towing rope.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
  • Just over Spoth’s shoulder a mile-wide tabular iceberg slides past, revealing the piercing cobalt at the berg’s cold center.
    — Elizabeth Rush, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Luckman, who previously published an animation of the berg's movements, wrote on his blog.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Still, there’s nothing easy about dragging a berg weighing 100 million tons or so through the Antarctic Ocean’s high waves.
    — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 8 June 2019
  • Getting a berg from Antarctica to Cape Town will also involve catching a ride on different ocean currents.
    — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 8 June 2019
  • Since 1914, the patrol has monitored bergs in the North Atlantic and distributed the information to mariners.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 23 June 2023
  • There are no major research bases or centers on the piece that's about to break away, unlike on the berg that split from Antarctica in 2015, according to ESA.
    — Zoha Qamar, CNN, 6 July 2017

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