How to Use ravine in a Sentence

ravine

noun
  • Got a lot of hills and ravines and vines and trees and stuff.
    — Janet Steen, Longreads, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the camp was shadowed in the ravine.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Shah said, with sharp edges and a steep ravine that cuts through the center.
    — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • The southern trail runs along the brook that cuts its way through a deep ravine.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The sister had been murdered; her body was found in a ravine.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The car rolled down the hill, into a ravine and landed against a tree.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • On the Plateau, woodland wraps around a labyrinth of rocky ridges and ravines.
    — Jessica Bliss, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But Pyeongchang winds blowing through that ravine are a whole new kind of cold.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Of course, Tom finds him first and inanely yells his name across the ravine.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The ravine walls faced south, meaning the dwellings would have stayed warm in the winter.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Corbiere slipped and then tumbled over the edge and down into a ravine.
    — Khloe Quill, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Two weeks later, his body was found in a ravine in the Bay Area.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The trail passes the deep ravines that make a late autumn day feel even colder.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nights will be warmer and drier on slopes, cooler in valleys and ravines.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Another ravine study isn’t needed to know what to do.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The grizzly was coming up our side of the ravine, maybe 60 yards out.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The victim's truck was later found abandoned in a ravine.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Kluge did not say what happened that sent the man tumbling down the ravine, nor how steep the fall was.
    — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • 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 area has deep ravines and dense vegetation.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Mountains catch both the eye and block the view, as do ravines common to many trail sections.
    — Peter Reese, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • The lights in the ravine down below were like tiny autumn leaves on the surface of a deep well.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Between them sits a dry ravine, or barranca.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Swayze refused to use a body double during the scene when the pair dance on a log over a ravine.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • And, again, Dunn stayed by her boyfriend’s side, following them down to the ravine.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • 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
  • His aged dog disappears and is later found dead at the bottom of a ravine.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And a ravine on the property had some of the highest lead levels in the state.
    — jsonline.com, 15 Feb. 2017
  • On some days, hundreds of skiers and snowboarders make the 3-mile hike to the ravine.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024

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