How to Use ravine in a Sentence

ravine

noun

• 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
• The ravine walls faced south, meaning the dwellings would have stayed warm in the winter.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
• By Sunday, the homes had fallen six to 10 feet down the ravine.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• By Sunday, though, the homes had fallen 6 to 10 feet down the ravine.
  — Nathan Solis and Grace Toohey, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
• The car rolled down the hill, into a ravine and landed against a tree.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• Two weeks later, his body was found in a ravine in the Bay Area.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• On May 28, a teenage boy found Anna’s body in a ravine.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Jeep had been found tipped on the passenger side at the bottom of a ravine.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 27 July 2022
• 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 grizzly was coming up our side of the ravine, maybe 60 yards out.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2021
• 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 force of the crash sent the motorcycle into a ravine.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2023
• The sister had been murdered; her body was found in a ravine.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• On some days, hundreds of skiers and snowboarders make the 3-mile hike to the ravine.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• 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
• And, again, Dunn stayed by her boyfriend’s side, following them down to the ravine.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
• And below it all these ridiculous lives in a deep ravine.
  — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• It’s the chapter in which Lavinia Nebbs walks through a Waukegan ravine at midnight.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The Saturn hit a dirt ravine and barbed wire fence then rolled, Garrow said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The packages were found in a ravine about 30 miles north of Birmingham.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• The trail passes the deep ravines that make a late autumn day feel even colder.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• The Summit Lake area is open country with plenty of hills and ravines.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2023
• No photos of the Sandy Creek spills or the Cymric ravine flooded with oil were shown.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• He was found lying face down in a ravine 330 yards from the spot where he was last seen walking.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 June 2024
• Anthis is believed to have launched near a ravine called Mary’s Gash.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• Or there is a loved one at the bottom of a ravine, a piece of root skewering their body like a hors d’oeuvre.
  — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
• By July, a sticky, shimmering stream of crude and brine oozed through the steep ravine.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• Officials say the fire was started by a man pushing a burning car into a ravine near Chico.
  — Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
• In the ensuing action, many Lakota men, women and children sought to escape via ravines that cut through the area.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024