How to Use crevasse in a Sentence

crevasse

noun
  • Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • At the edge of the site, a crevasse had opened, swallowing a tree.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
  • In a shadowy crevasse, a red-nosed clown strummed a banjo in the dark.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The route up Mount Rainier was filled with crevasses.
    — Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Pure white ice could conceal a deep crevasse that leads to a cold and deadly plunge.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Dents and crevasses pockmarked her teats.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There's a car jump across a giant crevasse that is just a once-in-a-lifetime stunt.
    — EW.com, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The crevasse was wide enough for only one person to descend at a time.
    — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • Glacier crevasses are ever more prevalent as the ice shrinks and shifts.
    — Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Turning from the crevasse, Paul took a moment to stare out at the vista.
    — Erik Weihenmayer, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Stay out of the crevasse in the hour after sunset, or the building will eat you.
    — David Guzman, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The rapid pace of erosion caused by the crevasses may cause the glacier to fall apart rather than melt away.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The snout of the remaining glacier hung above us, blue-grey and laced with crevasses.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Those who tried to run were hit by ice chunks or knocked into crevasses hundreds of feet deep.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Lately, the crevasse has begun to build new marsh again, though not yet enough to replace what was lost.
    — Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • In pictures, Adam leaps seracs and skis at the lip of dark crevasses.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • While the team tried to pull him up to safety, his belt broke, and Bell went back down into the crevasse.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • To the west was the Greenlandic ice sheet—up to two miles thick and filled with perilous crevasses.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The pothole Brenda had seen was on its way to becoming a crevasse.
    — Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike dogs, rats can wriggle through the cracks and crevasses of a container ship.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • What happens is that the lubricant mixes with the steel dust and sticks in the tiny crevasses in the stone.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • Two of the climbers were unroped, and a few hundred meters from camp one of them plunged through a snow bridge into a crevasse.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Beside Levi’s tower lies a miles-long crevasse, shrouded in fog and studded with mines.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Bargiel goes slow, picking his way through the labyrinthine glacier, past deep crevasses, and under skyscraper-sized blocks of ice.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Winchester's nose was about 6 inches from the rock when the tiny creature struck out of a crevasse, quick as a snake.
    — Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • As a result, seawater in this crevasse is freezing at the top, but melting at the opening.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • His rescue was the second from a Denali crevasse this year of a person not roped to others.
    — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • The craft discovered crevasses and stair-like fractures in the ice that are speeding up erosion.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ladders are used to cross the deep crevasses in the Khumbu Icefall.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
  • Takac’s rescue was the second from a Denali crevasse this year of a person not roped to others.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2017

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