How to Use canyon in a Sentence

canyon

noun
  • Her kids have grown up in the canyon.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Two more hunters in the canyon had shot bucks that day.
    — Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The roar boomed through the canyon and echoed from the ridges.
    — Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The trail traces the canyon rim, and there are no guardrails.
    — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This ocean canyon heaves waves of shale and basalt, quartz and silt.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The last drops 70 feet, straight down a sheer canyon wall.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 23 May 2026
  • Even with the shutdown, more parts of the canyon are open.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The world's largest cave will, one day, become a canyon.
    — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • And the state is slashed by canyons — even a famous one or two.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
  • The plane then veered left and took a steep drop down into the canyon.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, that was the case in six of the top 21 canyon parks.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That means, of course, that the second half is down the side of a canyon.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 July 2023
  • To get there, the group drove for hours and hiked through a golden-brown canyon.
    — Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • The two friends who joined the owner and dog hiked out of the canyon as planned.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The crew located them deep in a canyon.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Mule rides along the rim and into the canyon will resume this year.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Politics whip right and left, winds through a canyon.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The rapid spread of flames in the canyon wasn’t surprising.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • The gap between the have and have-nots had widened into a canyon.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • There was that ring around the moon and the sycamores and maples turned yellow in the canyons.
    — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An endless desert landscape of canyons against the open sky.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The canyon stretched from horizon to horizon.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Deep canyons are best left to the raccoons and coyotes that call them home.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s even a certain canyon known to steal hearts and alter lives.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The intro rail ride gets gussied up a bit by streaks of light and canyon shadows.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The canyon is a great place to explore at the end of a warm summer day, too.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The area has flat dirt trails for hikers and bikers, rock canyons and open grass fields.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Refers to a canyon and creek northeast of Tucson.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Out in the deserts, below in the oceans, high in the mountains, deep in the canyons.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • That was when the 91 Freeway had two lanes through the canyon.
    — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022

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