How to Use glacial in a Sentence

glacial

adjective
  • Progress on the bill has been glacial.
  • Glacial blue is light, bright, and frosty.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But my words have a glacial edge to them.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s these huge kind of glacial changes in my life.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • There’s a sauna and glacial-fed creek on-site, too.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • See the world’s highest glacial palace.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
  • See the world’s highest glacial palace.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
  • Why did the glacial ice not extend all the way across the bay?
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • My work suggests that progress along these lines is glacial at best.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Seals, whales and fish swim in the frigid, glacial waters that lap its shores.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Stick to cool or cold drinks, not ones that are a degree or two off glacial.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
  • Skeiðará used to be one of the island's biggest glacial rivers.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The union has been on strike for four weeks with talks of a deal moving at a glacial pace.
    — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But these bears can supplement the sea-ice-free days with glacial ice.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 22 July 2022
  • Take a hike to one of the icy-blue glacial lakes that pepper the region.
    — Ally Jaksen, Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The site in the rolling, glacial terrain is blessed with cold, spring water.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Much of Chicago was built on a glacial lakebed, which means very clayey soils.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • The case has moved along at a glacial pace amid a Covid backlog in the courts.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Adorned with a mini glacial ice block, it’s been shaken and cooled just right.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Lady Gaga is not moving at a glacial pace!
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The glacial, half-mile stretch to the banks of the Ohio was the last leg to freedom.
    — Sarah Haselhorst, The Enquirer, 30 July 2020
  • But sometimes the flow of meltwater is blocked by a plug of glacial ice.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But change moves at a glacial pace in the world of professional sports.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • While London had been chilly, here the late-March air is glacial.
    — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • About how much of the Earth's landmass is covered with glacial ice?
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • How do glacial outbursts happen?
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In that sense, this case was never just about a glacial lake in Peru.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • But this is the NHL, a league that can move at a glacial pace.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Of that 3 percent, about two-thirds is frozen in the world’s melting glacial ice.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021

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