[
US
/pɪnəˈtuboʊ/
]
NOUN
- a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila; erupted in 1991 after 600 years of dormancy
How To Use Pinatubo In A Sentence
- And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature, I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo.
- The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines, caused circumpolar cooling, delayed snowmelt, and resulted in global reductions in productivity of arctic waterbirds in 1992.
- Crow Valley had been covered in several metres of ash and mud from Mount Pinatubo.
- It said that temperatures could be expected to rise now that ash from the Pinatubo eruption was dissipating.
- Mount Saint Helens in Washington and Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines are examples of stratovolcanoes.
- And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature, I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo.
- On June 15, Mount Pinatubo spewed ash 40 km into the air and produced huge ash flows (also called pyroclastic flows) and mudflows that devastated a large area around the volcano.
- The June 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption produced voluminous pyroclastic flows and a major Plinian umbrella cloud during its paroxysmal phase.
