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Sentence Examples A deep ravine to the right is good for kingfishers, flycatchers and gymnures. The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood. We were awestruck by the amazing views down the ravine and on to the river. The blue line intersecting the orange band of the 401 in the lower left indicates the ravine and the site of the crash. A driver who escaped without a scratch when his car plunged 50 feet down a moorland ravine has told of his amazing escape. Jeremy jumped into the ravine as well now, just before the pine tree fell right on top of us. I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance. Somehow he made a misstep and lost his footing, sliding awkwardly down to the bottom of the ravine and bruising himself painfully. The Navajo man kicked at the snake with his moccasin-clad feet, until it fell down the ravine in a series of coils. Cod Beck carries on, squirting from beneath a sloping earthen dam, which had a few molehills, and then gurgling into a wooded ravine. On a terrace beyond the ravine an umbrageous oak spreads his great boughs indulgently beside the sombre Persian forms. Arrows indicate the path of the Caterpillar as it tumbled off the skid road into the ravine. Suspended some 300 feet above a ravine, the footbridge would span a quarter mile between two mountains. The squatters settled in the flat part of the ravine, on top of the cemetery, but did not build a good city in terms of urban development. We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path. Working on a film in St Lucia, he almost crashes a bus over the side of a ravine. Trebah Gardens, Falmouth, Cornwall is famed for its ravine gardens and this is one of the best. They reached the ravine and fiercely laid siege to the strong defenses made there in the last attempt to stop them. He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine. It then hit the side of a bridge before plunging into the eight-meter-deep ravine. Show More Sentences There's really no good way to carry a rifle when crawling on hands and knees, or when squirming to the lip of a ravine. A few custard creams and off we go to the tropical ravine, for the jungle scene. Paragon looked to see a smooth trail that diverted from the ravine, leading into the passive earthen walls. They walked for a distance over the rough hillside and then came to a halt on a promontory which loomed out over the ravine. As we stood above the huge ravine I could not even imagine how our diggers survived in such a place. Thirty years later, the cave city of Matera still stands on the ravine over the River Gravina, a dinosaurian pile the colour of the sandy earth. The blocks of limestone in the forest's ravine are covered with lush growths of mosses, lichens, liverworts and walking ferns. The Castle's gardens lie in a dramatic ravine which was once a quarry, and are particularly pretty in autumn. The area where they are located is precarious because the ravine is a main watercourse. The rubbish tips have been stabilized by unloading earth over the sides of the ravine to form wedge-like slopes, recalling the tumbling debris. As they crested the hill, Paragon saw that this side of the ravine was not so steep. Within the space of a few minutes, I was at the river edge in the bottom of a deep ravine. When no gunshots followed, he continued to roll down the side of a ravine towards the swollen river below. Some of the cracks were small, yet some were very large, like a ravine or a gorge. The plane had skidded into a ravine in a wooded area off Highway 401, the busiest freeway in Canada. The area where the accident happened is a narrow ravine behind Buckden village where there are a number of waterfalls. On her fifteenth birthday she had stupidly agreed to jump off a branch of a willow tree over a shallow ravine some ten feet below on a dare. The plan of the house has been developed to make a two and three storey L-shaped building with an attenuated wing extending back to the ravine. One of them steps forward and with his knife cuts the burden free and it falls to the bottom of the ravine. One whole day I stalked great kiskadees, trying to keep my balance in a muddy ravine near a small lake. Show More Sentences Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road. There were a few feet of grassy areas, and then the landscape dropped into a woody ravine. The ravine was a perfect corral for the horses once they were in it. According to local police, Hatch was speeding when her car slipped through a gap between guardrails on the windy road, sending her car to the bottom of the ravine. Extremely steep slopes encircle the northwestern terminus of the ravine and conglomeratic sandstone slump boulders lie on the lower elevations of the ravine. I covered myself a little bit when we were scriptwriting because unlike the 1933 film I had several of our principal characters actually falling to the bottom of the ravine. A total of 313 species in 85 families and 204 genera were collected at the 30-hectare preserve which occurs on a glacial kame and has a rugged ridge and ravine topography. The ravine inhibits the engines from tearing away, and within seconds smoke appears. Last December a Continental 737 taking off from Denver aborted at the last second and, in icy conditions, skidded into a ravine. The ravine would also need to be cleared of undergrowth and trees. The Salto de Albi porphyry copper system is located within the Albi ravine. The latter works its way around Lingmell to Wast Water through a spectacular ravine, one of the most impressive in the Lake District. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. It soon broadens into the clay ravine through which the path and chairlift from Needles Park descend to the beach. The sandy beach, its Old Village and a wooded ravine, Shanklin Chine, are its main attractions. A 17-year-old girl died after a quad bike she was riding on with a friend dropped into a rocky ravine in Mid Wales, police have said. The remains of her body were found in a ravine almost a year later. In the High Weald Gills are deeply cut ravines, usually with a stream in the base which historically eroded the ravine. Whose fault was it anyways that truck three got stuck in the ravine? A Gill or Ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. Show More Sentences The bus fell into a ravine in the town of Carvalhal on its way from the Spanish city of Badajoz to Portuguese city Santa Maria da Feira, Xinhua reported. The upper terminus of each ravine is choked with willows and canary grass. A SCOTTISH tourist guide, his American clients and an Australian nanny saved the life of a desperate mum who was about to jump from a bridge more than 100 feet above a ravine. Friends planted the native Sweet Coltsfoot in front of P. japonicus at the bottom of their moist ravine, and the combination makes quite a statement. This at last brought me to the cooley or ravine that I so longed to reach. Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place. The Ravine Forests were distinguished from other deciduous woodlands by their high, steep bank slopes, calcareous soils and their associated calciphilic flora. Examples from Classical Literature The sides of the ravine were so precipitous that no man could scale them unaided. To shorten the return journey I was tempted to glissade down what appeared to be a snow-filled ravine, which was very steep. On the other side of the track was a deep ravine, dropping abruptly from the roadbed. Now and then a slight ravine is filled with a shrubby growth of a lighter green. In descending I followed the course of a ravine full of snow, the sides of which were covered by a dense forest of silver fir. Parallel with it, a short distance to the southward, is a ravine several miles in length, known as coal pit Hollow. A ravine tributary to the latter, near its mouth, has worked back until it has captured the flow of coal pit. There was a clump of rhododendron at the head of the ravine, and near Steve's cabin. The solfatara of Danan is situated exactly south of that below, at the end of the ravine of the Kasiboi. Always she kept to the depth of the little ravine, through which ran a tiny, babbling brook. Behind Eagle Cliff, almost isolating it from the mountain, of which it is the barbacan, a hideous ravine yawns upon the pass. In the rear a deep ravine, jungly with thick undergrowth, then the winding snag-strewn Patea River. Immediately below him ran a jungly ravine, and behind him the hill rose sharply. Then I ran on to the next open break in the jungly ravine, and again got up into a tree. The herd of bison, it appears, were just outside a jungly ravine which ran up from the main forest through the grass land. She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald. There are two ruined stone walls thrown across the ravine, the remains merely of the very few villages of Koord Cabul. There was a ravine at some little distance from it, densely clothed with forest. When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain. He went to the sled, untethered the dogs, and sent them scuttling up the ravine. Show More Sentences As Randall and waul gained ground to the front, they became separated by a ravine in which was concealed a brigade of Federals. He takes the branch ravine lying just west of Circus Hill, and moves up to its end. Our back garden just topples right over into a ravine that ends up short on the shore. General Chalmers plunged into the ravine, and the order to retire did not reach him. He mastered it, and galloped with a heavy heart up the ravine and to the house of Pop. Without waiting to plan, I began to climb down the steep side of the ravine. She noticed a small, tumbledown cottage which stood at the edge of a ravine. In this is the milldam Fall, a ledge about fourteen feet high, over which the waters make a uniform flow all across the ravine. At last the ravine stopped abruptly against a sandstone barrier over which the little stream fell lazily and mistily. The Zouaves then made a dash for the ravine on the tout Vent front. I passed them, and went down into the shadow and odours of the almost deserted ravine. This ravine led in an easterly direction as far as the Pecos bottom. Where they stood an abutment of the cliff hid the ravine below. In crossing a small ravine, an axletree of one of the wagons was broken. In a two-hours' beating-up the ravine he found no traces of bears. It was once the most romantic ravine to be found in the Black Forest. Was he hidden under the black water that filled the bottom of the ravine? Once started, there was no chance of stopping, and before they were fairly in the bed of the ravine Rama winded Shere Khan and bellowed. I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash. I had eaten all the brush in the ravine and was beginning to be lonely. Show More Sentences Then the big flock of turkeys eluded us in an impenetrable, brushy ravine. With this brusk and emphatic reply he left the ravine, followed by Oza. Their unrestrained laughter filling the hot, fern-clad ravine had a soulless limpidity, as of wild, inhuman dwellers in tropical woodlands. The Martian had been walking by the ravine and had clumsily fallen in. Tad was ploughing in the cornfield on the other side of the ravine. The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria. In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted. A ravine or dry wash was finally encountered, when Dell dismounted. We stood panting on the edge of the ravine, looking down at the trees and bushes that grew below us. In every shallow ravine were Groves of tree ferns forty feet tall. A pond, with a sluiceway which, when opened, gives on the ravine. A hobbling figure appeared for a moment on the side of the ravine. At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself. Our famous north-country trout stream wound its flashing and foaming way through a ravine in the rocky moorland. Presently the ravine grew narrower for a space, and carelessly I stepped into the stream. The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. The ravine by which I ascended from kuru was very narrow and rugged. He turned down Dupont street and I saw him no more until we met in the Auburn ravine. The whole scenery of this deep ravine was of Alpine wildness and sublimity. Murieta was washing his thoroughbred mare in the bed of the ravine. Show More Sentences Taking his horse, he and Andrew rode at a walk up the ravine. We left our ponies in the ravine and wriggled through the long grass. Stern picked up a rock from the rock garden and tossed it into the ravine. Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon's edge, and now broke into hills lower and lower, till at last came the true plains. The Beast People by that time had, with one or two exceptions, left the ravine and made themselves lairs according to their taste among the thickets of the island. The structures formed a three-story, sheet-metal ravine, their echo spectacular, the motorcycle a contained and rainless thunderstorm ricocheting between walls. I passed the bridge of Pelissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it. Overhead, vast roots of trees hung down from the sides of the ravine dripping with moisture, and trembling with the concussions produced by the fall. Crabb Ravine lay to the side of our house, beyond the wide field. The big Ravine and all the small nullahs are chock-a-block with corpses. Timberdale was a small place on the other side of Crabb Ravine. Find more words! 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