fjords's Usage Examples:

The Pacific border of the coast range of British Columbia is ragged with fjords and channels, where large steamers may go 50 or Too m.

The existing land features, with the fjords, are due to ice erosion in the glacial period.'

Many local steamers penetrate the fjords, touching at every village and gaard.

Aalesund is adjacent to the JOrund and Geiranger fjords, frequented by tourists.

South of the Toro there are no large rivers on this coast, but the narrow fjords penetrate deeply into the mountains and bring away the drainage of their snow-capped, storm-swept elevations.

Hitherto marine conditions were confined to the littoral; in Middle Miocene times (Helvetian) the sea broke in and spread in a south-east direction in the form of long ramified fjords but did not extend as far as the Sahara.

On the west coast there are also many great fjords.

- The coasts of Greenland are for the most part deeply indented with fjords, being intensely glaciated.

Apart from the fjords and lakes the chief beauties of the Alps are glaciers and waterfalls.

The presence of the sea in these fjords is an accident.

Synonyms:

inlet, recess, fiord,

Antonyms:

begin,