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Meanings of calved off in English
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Usage of calved off in English
1
Huge blocks of ice calved off and collapsed into tidal waves of icy slush.
2
The icebergs nearby squealed with a frightful noise, as ice calved off the frigid masses.
3
As the first to attempt the route since the rock calved off, he's essentially re-establishing it.
4
The permit required that only floating ice that had already calved off a glacier be harvested.
5
The giant block that's calved off the Larsen C ice shelf weighs about a trillion tonnes.
6
An iceberg half the size of Greater London has calved off Pine Island glacier in the Antarctic.
7
Scientists say that the 720-sqkm iceberg calved off in a natural event unrelated to the effects of global warming.
8
It was the stage for tragedy last month, when parts of the serac calved off, killed several climbers and swept away fixed lines.
9
While I was unlucky to have been there when a piece calved off, I was lucky David's quick action with the rope saved me.
10
The largest iceberg that calved off of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf into the Ross Sea measured about 7 miles long by 4 miles wide.
11
A large section of the glacier-manythousands of tons-calvedoff into the sea.