Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
ravine
IPA transcription: [ɹəv'in]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ravine
Meaning:
a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
Usage examples
The party now crossed a ravine to the main stream of the Athabaska.
Moodily he walked along the side of the steep ravine to which the little structure clung.
Dick stepped into the narrow path cut in the side of the ravine and inhaled more draughts of the fresh air.
The narrow ravine was not only perfectly dry, but manifestly had never been the bed of any mountain torrent.
It settled down slowly into the ravine on its repeller rays until it was but a few feet above the tree tops.
Kennedy took his customary place, and Joe followed, but not without casting a covetous glance at the treasures in the ravine.
Coming to the ravine, he found the only road was down its precipitous side to the valley, that looked so safe and pleasant now.
But as dusk came gradually in the ravine he resolved that he would go. His supper, as usual, was brought to him by Miss Woodville.
The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae. Into this we plunged.
Immediately a great dog came bounding toward her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.