How to Use scree in a Sentence

scree

noun
  • Keep that volcanic ash and scree from getting into your shoes.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The fast-melting snow has left portions of hard bedrock dispersed within the soft scree.
    — Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • Soon, the road narrowed and dissolved into pebbly white scree.
    — Meara Sharma, The Dial, 22 July 2025
  • All around us humans and horses picked their way across scree fields and catwalks, up to the high country.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Wyatt dug his heels into the scree, or loose rocks, and then slid his way to a shortcut and an early break.
    — Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The faint trail climbs through forest, up loose scree, and then disappears entirely.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Imagine East Coast ice on top of Rocky Mountain scree fields.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The trail starts in a glade, crosses a bridge over a creek, then emerges into alpine pasture and scree surrounded by high peaks.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The Pirellis were reasonably quiet and gripped winding pavement, wet clay, and loose scree with aplomb.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The trails around our city are pretty modest but full of scree at the steeper points, and regular running shoes just won't cut it.
    — Suzie Glassman, Health, 18 June 2024
  • The path rises skyward through a lunar landscape of slate-gray scree, with no vegetation in sight.
    — Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Large boulders and rock scree slowed his pace — terrible terrain for someone with limited strength in his arms and legs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Meyer recorded pear trees on sterile mountain slopes, on the edge of a pond in wet soil, on screes, in bamboo stands and even in running water.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • One installation, made from piles of rubble and scree beguiles the clientele but confounds the cleaners.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 May 2017
  • Where mighty glaciers once spilled into Swiss valleys like frozen rivers of ice, a residue of gray scree and boulders remains, spliced through with raging streams.
    — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Escaping the domehab meant venturing outside in a full space suit and contending with miles of crumbly, sharp volcanic scree.
    — National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2016
  • Lots of padding and an extra-wide toe box kept feet comfy on longer days, and tough nubuck leather held up like a champ after multiple thrashings through rocky scree fields.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • The piece transforms the wall with a cluster of dents and gashes, leaving a scree of detritus beneath it; the head itself lies among the rubble.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Trails up mountains are notoriously hard to follow, especially above tree line, where there’s scree and talus.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Many of Myanmar’s jade mines are also exploitative death traps, where workers scrambling over scree are at constant risk of burial by landslide.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 18 May 2021
  • Down in the belly of the crater, men held the ends of giant black hoses between their legs and moved the nozzles back and forth, directing torrents of water into loose mounds of scree.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • That said, hunters still find the platform appealing, even if their trek to their favorite spot is a short walk down a flat two-track, rather than a scramble up a 30-degree scree field.
    — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But in reality, snakebites occur most frequently when people (and dogs) surprise rattlers while hiking, running or scrambling over rock scree.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
  • Conservation officers drove to the top of the trail early July 6 and hiked down through scree, or rock fragments, to reach her, officials said.
    — Sara Schilling july 9, Miami Herald, 9 July 2025
  • Vanpelt has not yet been found because of the dangerous terrain consisting of snow, cliffs, large boulders, crevices and rock scree, which calls for technical mountaineers, officials said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
  • And the four-way stretch, water-resistant Dyneema scree guard that extends around the ankle moves comfortably with me while keeping trail gunk from sneaking in and irritating my feet.
    — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The Bukumu kingdom occupies about a hundred and thirty square miles in the province of North Kivu, and large portions of it are covered by black lava scree.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • All hikes start at the north arm of Saglek Fjord at Silluak, where a rocky beach cradled by steep scree walls (created from rocks sliding down the fjord cliffs) gives way to a broad meadow.
    — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Wax current shrubs, prickly poppies, globe mallow, rare Graham’s tick-trefoil and the ubiquitous sunflowers sprout from seemingly inhospitable volcanic scree.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Today these first monsters are imprisoned in the rocks, crumbling from mountainsides of scree in British Columbia, and paved over by suburban subdivisions in Pennsylvania.
    — Peter Brannen august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025

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