How to Use karst in a Sentence

karst

noun
  • The retention ponds built on those courses can leak into the karst and trigger sinkholes.
    — Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
  • The karsts are full of nooks and crannies that have nurtured highly specialized plants and animals found nowhere else.
    — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Enshi contains a karst cave system with numerous bats in its 37 miles of passages.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • For long stretches, hikers plod across karst limestone slabs jutting out at tenuous angles.
    — Alex Crevar, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Further in, stretched across the dirt, is an entrance to a cave — a karst that leads deep under the forest to the Edwards Aquifer.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Sixteen lakes stretch over a portion of the park, and they've been made breathtakingly beautiful by what is known as karst processes.
    — Caroline Alkire, House Beautiful, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Below ground level, nearly half of Slovenia is composed of porous karst leading to a labyrinth of limestone caves.
    — Alex Crevar, National Geographic, 4 May 2019
  • The Edwards Plateau is a land of karst, a term for rock, typically limestone, dissolved into caves and pits.
    — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2016
  • Start the day early on a long-tail boat and savor your breakfast in the center of one of these towering karsts, kayak through mangroves, and hop around to the nearby islets.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 23 May 2019
  • During the next two years, if the project is green-lit, engineers will drill boreholes into the limestone to determine whether there are karsts that can be avoided.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The normally moist soil of Florida has a stabilizing effect on karst.
    — Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
  • Officials told state media that of the 206 karst caves inspected in the area, two-thirds were polluted to some degree.
    — Karla Cripps, CNN Money, 17 June 2025
  • Foliage clings, improbably, to dramatic karst formations that rise out of the sea like shards of green glass on Misool’s edge.
    — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The destruction of karsts at the hands of cement companies, developers and tourists is a problem throughout the region.
    — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The country’s untamed beauty is as soaring as its limestone karsts, wild as its lush evergreen rainforests, and calming as its pristine beaches.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2025
  • State and county regulators said the dredging drastically altered the nature of the stream and damaged a karst feature.
    — Taima Kern, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Plentiful rain falling on porous karst geology collects and feeds groundwater to more than 300 artesian springs.
    — Robert Knight, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • Krabi’s beautiful coastline, lapped by impossibly green water studded with limestone karsts, serves as the backdrop for this peaceful property.
    — Alisha Prakash, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Among the hundreds of caves hidden in the limestone karsts of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, a work of art faded into a rock wall could be of global importance.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • Each hill and cave in Cambodia’s rocky karst landscape –– a term for a landscape created when rocks break down, forming large cave springs, sinking streams and sinkholes –– is isolated from the others.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Initial examination of the karst feature in early February showed that the limestone bed that forms the cave ceiling was scored and thinner where the utility lines were installed.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Knauth began exploring desert karsts in the 1980s as a young geology professor building his lab at Arizona State.
    — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
  • In addition to learning more about the karsts' mysterious ecosystems, the biodiversity study aimed to advocate for their conservation.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • What archaeologists haven’t known for sure, because of the small-scale nature of most excavations so far, is how all those people clustered among the rolling karst and seasonal wetlands of northern Guatemala.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Their 13 acres on Fitzhugh’s winding road has eight karst features in the form of natural springs, which could be contaminated by runoff from the amphitheater, making their well water dangerous.
    — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Drilling also affects the delicate hydrological system of the karst, the limestone formations where prehistoric paintings are usually found.
    — 1843, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The telescope is located in Puerto Rico's karst region, which serves as an important water source and contains the island's richest biodiversity.
    — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • There are 1,474 karst features throughout Camp Bullis, ranging from small cracks and crevices to slits in the earth, that deposit water into the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022

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