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Six example sentences with crater, each labelled with its topic.
We hiked at dawn to peer into the crater, where steam drifted over a pool of gray mineral water.
Travel
Ash from the crater settled on villages downwind, and botanists tracked how quickly the fields recovered afterwards.
Environment
The painter climbed for three days and set her easel where the crater's rim opened onto a sea of cloud.
Art
Gas sensors placed around the crater rim alert volcanologists when sulfur levels climb ahead of a possible eruption.
Science
She waited until dusk so the glow inside the crater would register against the darkening sky in one exposure.
Photography
Roman writers described the mountain's crater smoking for days before the eruption that buried the towns below it.
History
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