How to Use permafrost in a Sentence

permafrost

noun
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  • As the ground warms, ice in the permafrost melts, and the soil thaws.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Study the glaciers, the permafrost, the atmosphere, the oceans.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • Arctic permafrost holds a third of all the carbon that’s stored in the world’s soils.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The 30-year project would require drilling on top of permafrost.
    — Katy Stech Ferek and Timothy Puko, WSJ, 9 July 2022
  • The teeth had been buried for over a million years in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
  • And there, too, large swaths of permafrost are at risk of melting.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The virus was found along with six others in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The researchers dug up permafrost and brought it back to Copenhagen to search for DNA.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Still, there are stalks popping through the permafrost.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • To the south are rolling permafrost landforms crisscrossed with rivers and creeks.
    — Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Across the countryside, the effect of permafrost is plain to see.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Sakha Republic in Siberia is one of the coldest areas in the world and sits on top of permafrost.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The team found the organism in permafrost cores drilled 11.5 feet deep near the Alazeya River in Siberia.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • The tubes are bored from 15 to 70 feet into the permafrost in areas where warming might cause it to thaw.
    — NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • New pathogens emerge out of the melting permafrost, killing millions.
    — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Zhùr has been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years, sealed away from air and moisture.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
  • This far north, and during the summer, the sun was out 24 hours a day, but during the peak of the day, that permafrost tended to thaw out.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 July 2020
  • In the summer of 2016, a heatwave washed over Europe, thawing permafrost in the north.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2020
  • To reach pockets of coal, the drill passed through about a third of a mile of sandstone, mudstone, and hundreds of yards of permafrost.
    — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Now the permafrost is only down to 3.5 inches, and the soil is muddier.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • On the way to the permafrost of the Alaskan tundra, eagle-eyed motorists may spot caribou, moose and grizzly bears along the road.
    — Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • This accelerate the melting of the Alaskan permafrost, the layer of ice and dirt that stays frozen year-round.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2020
  • Vishnivetskaya is not sure whether the nematodes her team pulled from the permafrost passed the epochs in dauer stage.
    — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2019
  • As the surrounding landscape shifts from the freezing and thawing of permafrost, the lake can drain.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • When permafrost thaws, sea ice disappears, and wildfires rage in the north, the consequences extend to the rest of the world.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • The hot weather has caused permafrost to melt and fueled a growing number of fires.
    — Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • There’s tremendous amounts of carbon in permafrost that has been stored for many thousands of years, if not longer.
    — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • The mercury has likely been sequestered in the permafrost for millennia, the scientists said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The wolf’s carcass is one of many ancient remains to be found in the Siberian permafrost — an expanse of perennially frozen ground — in recent years.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024

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