Cirques is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cirques meaning
plural of cirque
Using Cirques
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of cirque
Context around Cirques
- Average sentence length in these examples: 16 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cirques
- In this selection, "cirques" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 16 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, glacial, mainly and may stand out and add context to how "cirques" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cirques are where and number of cirques mainly facing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cirques" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cirques
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier. (10 words)
Apart from that, it is only discernable from a large number of cirques mainly facing northeast. (16 words)
Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left. (22 words)
Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left. (22 words)
Apart from that, it is only discernable from a large number of cirques mainly facing northeast. (16 words)
Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier. (10 words)
Example sentences (3)
Apart from that, it is only discernable from a large number of cirques mainly facing northeast.
Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier.
Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left.