How to Use fjord in a Sentence

fjord

noun
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  • The land on the north side of the fjord was broad and rolling.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The bodies of the others are in the middle of the fjord.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In the space of five years, all the other life in the fjords would just get killed.
    — Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The Fretheim has 122 rooms, each with an amazing view of the fjord or the mountains.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 May 2019
  • This sparked a 650-foot tall wave to roar out of the fjord and into Icy Bay.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Since this is all in the west fjords, the east fjords have not been attacked yet.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The fjord is key for fishing in the autumn, when the open sea is too harsh.
    — Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
  • He was raised on Tjoma Island at the mouth of the Oslo fjord.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • At the head of the fjord is a tidewater glacier, a valley glacier that flows all the way to the ocean.
    — Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In the fjord nearing the glacier, a black bear swam across our vessel’s path.
    — Jan Brett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • As the sun sets over the fjord, head to either one of the Britannia's two bars.
    — Shelby Knick, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • This has occurred in response to a warming of the water in the fjord in front of the glacier.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • But in the end, each of the 11 bears swam ashore and walked back to their home fjord within a month or two, the study says.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
  • Placing moorings up and down the fjord to probe its depths.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The lodge is nestled on a private cove along a nine-mile fjord.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Kok: With two locations, guests can sauna off a pier or in the fjord. .
    — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
  • Deep, rich, unison strings opened the story like a strong wind across a fjord.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Far out in the fjord, humpback whales exhaled steamy plumes.
    — Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022
  • On the brief journey—which cost about $30—there are deep fjords and high alpine vistas.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The river at this point (more properly a fjord, a riverbed drowned by the sea) is vast and sullen.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • At this point, there are still refuges of cold water farther north and in the cold spots that lurk in fjords.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Most of the rooms come with a stunning view of the fjord and its breathtaking icebergs.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The landscape of deep valleys and fjords was crafted by the action of glaciers.
    — Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, in June 2018.
    — Thomas Crowther and Lucy Mulenckei, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The fjords of Norway — all 1,000 of them — are majestic.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 16 May 2024
  • The second part is planned for May in a Norwegian fjord.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The fjord is 100 miles long, fourth-longest in the world, and water plunges down a half mile at its deepest point.
    — Lori Swanson, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Monaco glacier, the scenic Raudfjord and the glacial fjord and bird sanctuary of the Kongsfjord.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Since the mid-nineteen-nineties, the front has retreated some fifteen miles up the fjord.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The rooms at Hotel Hans Egede feature lovely mountain and fjord views, and for more space, book one of the property's 15 apartments, which come with full kitchens and dining rooms.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024

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