How to Use moraine in a Sentence

moraine

noun
  • Expect lakes, moraines, river valleys, prairies, and thick forests.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The terminal moraine, the mounds of rubble left behind, form much of their high ground….
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • New York is built over marshes and creeks and glacial moraines that announce themselves in a storm.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Today, Sarn Badrig is the name of a reef formed by the remains of a glacial moraine.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The moraine acts as a dam, stopping the water from spilling into the valley below.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Stay near the vast glacial moraine at the heart of Skaftafell National Park.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Right now, warm water is barely cresting the moraine, then flowing down a seabed canyon toward the glacier.
    — Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The undulating sand forms immense ridges and valleys atop glacial moraines bluffs.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Soils are primarily glacial moraines of limestone, sand, and gravel.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many of these new lakes are held back by glacial moraines, which are essentially mounds of compressed sediments.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
  • When glaciers hold back lakes Some glacial lakes are dammed by moraines – mounds of rock and debris that are left behind as a glacier retreats.
    — Brianna Rick, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The waves can then rupture the ice dam or moraine, unleashing a flood of water, sediment and debris.
    — Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Icebergs regularly break off from the glacier face, getting caught in this shallow moraine and along the shoreline.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The largest deposits form what geologists call a terminal moraine.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • The torrents are so forceful there is a roar in the air—water gouging its way through old moraines and rolling boulders along the bottom of the riverbeds.
    — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The conveyor belt action also builds up a hill of gravel that surrounds its end, called a terminal moraine.
    — National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The sinewy hill and its glacial cousins — moraines, kettles and kames — make for a challenging winter hike, especially in deep snow.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Like Long Island, these are remnants of the rubble pile, or terminal moraine, pushed up by the ice sheet.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2014
  • Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries.
    — Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Tucked between the jagged basalt peaks and moraines is No Name Lake, a turquoise gem popping out from the surrounding black rock.
    — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Moraines and gentle drumlins rose and fell along the riverside, creating miniature highlands shrouded in red oak and sugar maple.
    — Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
  • Soils here are a complex mix of limestone, loess, granite, clay, gravel banks (both riverine and glacial moraine), sand and decomposed volcanics.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Perros Glacier is unique and worth spending some time taking in from the lookout around the corner from the moraine if the weather's good.
    — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Debris dragged along the landscape deposited in rounded hills, or kames, along with steep ridges known as eskers and moraines; and deep holes were scooped from the earth to form kettles.
    — Chelsey Lewis, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • The easiest explanation for a series of ridges like this would be a moraine, debris left behind at the edge of a glacier's furthest extent.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
  • Ground-penetrating radar determined that Imja Lake is held there by a very fragile moraine.
    — Alton Byers, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2013
  • The icefall gave way to a barren strip of gray moraine dotted with yellow and orange tents, the remnants of the season's Base Camp.
    — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Standing on the ice, Medrzycka noticed a pattern in the moraine -- the debris bank that generally runs along the top of the glacier.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Most climbing parties overnight on the moraine flats near Helen Lake and make their summit pushes from there, setting out in the middle of the night.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021
  • To the north, the Tibet base camp is located below the terminal moraine of the Rongok Glacier.
    — National Geographic, 16 May 2019

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