How to Use caldera in a Sentence

caldera

noun
  • The park’s main feature is a six-and-a-half-mile-wide volcanic caldera.
    — Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Short video of the current Kīlauea eruption from the west caldera wall.
    — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So the caldera could be primed to flood with magma and blow in a human lifetime.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Sulfur venting from the caldera taints the cold air and stings your nostrils.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Richards said someone falls down the Crater Lake caldera at least once a year.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • Find rooms with private terraces, pools, and even caves, all with gorgeous caldera views.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This site seems to have also fueled the most recent large eruption in the caldera.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The rock from the caldera can then collapse into the magma chamber.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Loa petroglyphs or around the steaming rim of the Kīlauea caldera.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2021
  • Near its peak there’s a beautiful lake in a caldera, or caved‑in crater, that formed thousands of years ago.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Its sides are sheer and vertical, and on its top is a 100-foot-deep caldera.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Cronin is the co-author of a recent study that looked into the caldera’s volcanic past.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Set at the highest point of the crater rim, the lodge looks down from 1,600 feet over the caldera.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The size of Kīlauea's summit caldera is about 3 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 12 July 2017
  • The sweeping views of the caldera are like watching a moving postcard in slow motion.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Shortly into his journey, the man lost his footing and slipped into the caldera.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2019
  • These are on the northern and eastern edges of the caldera, respectively.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The pay-off is a view inside a caldera and beyond across the wilderness to Lassen Peak.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The latter formed the current caldera at Campi Flegrei, which is more than eight miles across.
    — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The highlight of lodge rooms — which sleep up to four — is up-close views of the Kilauea caldera right out the window.
    — Kait Hanson, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2024
  • The white villages look over a cliff nearly 1,000 feet tall into the caldera.
    — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Your hotel is the classic Perivolas—white womblike structures and a pool perched at the edge of the caldera.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 2 June 2021
  • We were based in the town of Imerovigli, across the bay from Oia, but with equally dramatic caldera views.
    — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The eruption is viewable from nearly all open areas around the caldera, the park said in a Facebook post.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Auberge Resorts Collection, home of the largest swimming pool along the caldera.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The caldera on Fisher is big, a good 11 by 18 kilometers across.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • As the sun begins to set behind the caldera’s cliffs, the sky transforms into a vivid display of red, orange, and pink hues.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Santorini island, Greece, showing the caldera that is 12 km across at its widest point.
    — Paul Cooper, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2019
  • The tours usually stop at several sprawling salt flats and a caldera that was active millions of years ago.
    — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This doesn't mean that the eruption is ending, just that the threat of tall ash plumes from the summit caldera seems to be diminishing.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'caldera.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: