How to use in-sentence of “pyroclastic”:
+ The lava and pyroclastic material that comes out from volcanoes can make many different kinds of land shapes.
+ Normally, these type of stratovolcanoes generate explosive Plinian eruptions with associated pyroclastic flows that can melt snow and glaciers near the summit, thus producing devastating lahars.
+ A pyroclastic flow, pronounced pie-roh-class-tick, is a flow of “lava”, as commonly associated with volcanic eruptions.
+ The presence of extensive tuff and pyroclastic deposits suggests that a number of large explosive eruptions occurred during or before the eruptions of basaltic lavas.
+ The prominent La Olleta pyroclastic cone is on the volcano’s southwest flank and may also have been active in historical times.
+ Parklands”, 6th ed, page 149 The pyroclastic flow of heated rocks and gas that poured out of the Volcano spread over an area of over 230 square miles, destroying plants and buildings.
+ As successive pyroclastic flows travelled down the mountain’s gentle slopes and were deposited, the volcano took on a broad, conical form.
+ The second phase of the eruption released pyroclastic flows that burned and buried thousands of square miles.