calve - use in sentences

Preposition: from

  • shelf: Icebergs calve from the floating ice shelves, and much of the surrounding Southern Ocean freezes over in winter.

Modifying Another Word

  • recently: Test bulls are used on recently calved cows ( reduces semen costs ).
  • easily: Seventeen of the nineteen Limousin heifers have now calved easily, pleasing farm manager Philip Steans who is in charge of the project.
  • newly: Care is needed with the introduction to a cubicle house of newly calved cows, especially first calving heifers.

Object

  • glacier: Its incredible calving glaciers include the most productive in the world, which advances 30 meters every 24 hours.
  • interval: The calving interval is thought to be about four years.

Preposition: from

  • glacier: Often referred to as " iceberg alley " , these waters are packed with hundreds of different shaped icebergs that have calved from glaciers.

Preposition: into

  • sea: The inland ice, up to 3,500 meters thick, flows through the eastern mountains, before calving into the sea.

Modifying Another Word

  • first: Early puberty - first calving at 2 years old.
  • easy: Superb figures, easy calving, great temperament, fantastic length and depth and a great head.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • off: The head of the bay is a glacier ice front with seracs continually ' calving off ' into the sea below.

Preposition: in

  • autumn: Calving: The dairy herd starts calving in the autumn to ensure a good supply of milk during the winter months.

Preposition: of

  • iceberg: Calving of icebergs from these ice streams is the main way in which ice is lost from the Antarctic ice sheets.

Preposition: from

  • front: Those who have visited Antarctica will note the similarities of the landscape, with giant tabular icebergs calving from vast glacier fronts.

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