Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.