How to Use ravine in a Sentence

ravine

noun
Definition of ravinenext
Synonyms for ravinenext
  • The ravine lay more than 9,000 feet below, and no guardrail lined the road.
    — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The ravine walls faced south, meaning the dwellings would have stayed warm in the winter.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • By Sunday, the homes had fallen six to 10 feet down the ravine.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • By Sunday, though, the homes had fallen 6 to 10 feet down the ravine.
    — Nathan Solis and Grace Toohey, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
  • The car rolled down the hill, into a ravine and landed against a tree.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • On May 28, a teenage boy found Anna’s body in a ravine.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The Jeep had been found tipped on the passenger side at the bottom of a ravine.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • In the end, someone returns from the ravine with two beech branches to mark the grave.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The force of the crash sent the motorcycle into a ravine.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • And below it all these ridiculous lives in a deep ravine.
    — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The Summit Lake area is open country with plenty of hills and ravines.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The great room is cantilevered over the ravine, a distinctive feature of Wright's style.
    — Genevieve Redsten, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Police said in a report that Robinson's car rolled over in the ravine at 30 miles per hour.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2022
  • A Day in the Country also features a garden on a ravine.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2022
  • Rainbows shoot out from the falls in all directions, and a cool mist floats through the ravine even on the hottest summer days.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The six-bedroom, 6.5-bath house sits on the bluff of a ravine overlooking the Root River and Colonial Park.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Clark herself was about 40 feet below the car in a ravine, the sheriff's office said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The spring water tumbles down a slender ravine in Apache Pass.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • One of the Holocaust’s worst massacres occurred in 1941 in a ravine called Babyn Yar on Kyiv’s outskirts.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Two men inside the vehicle got out and ran through brush and into a ravine.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • His body was hidden in a remote ravine on the reservation.
    — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The same goes for landslides, like the one that caused a cluster of houses in Rolling Hills Estates to pitch into a ravine in 2023.
    — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • His favorite part of the wilderness had been a two-day hike from his shack — a plateau with steep ravines and a waterfall.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • At the bottom of the ravine, the concrete flood-control channel is flanked by two busy roads lined with cafes, small grocery stores and a school.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The trail dipped into the oak and laurel trees, hugging the side of a ravine before turning steeply upward toward the ridge.
    — Sarah Trent, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • The first of the murders hinted at in the play’s title happens in a ravine that keeps being mentioned as a landmark.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Seven children and a teacher were trapped in the cable car, dangling 900 feet above a ravine.
    — Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • There will always be rebels, with or without causes, as well as fears that the gap will widen into a ravine.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2023
  • After the driver lost control in a curve, his 2019 Range Rover went off the road into a ravine and hit a tree, police said.
    — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023

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