valley

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Recent Examples of valley The hardest moments — the wilderness and valleys — taught him to take nothing for granted. Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025 The golden mounds that rise 600 feet from the valley floor are framed by the red-and-white stratified sandstone of the Last Chance Mountains. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025 Sandy and gravelly soils predominate on the valley floors, providing excellent drainage for the vines. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 A day after firefighters got a reprieve with lighter winds than expected, gusts were hitting up to 35 mph (56 kph) on the coast and in valleys and 55 mph (88 kph) in the mountains before dawn, National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall said. Josh Dubose, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for valley 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valley
Noun
  • The enormous reservoir sits at the confluence of the U.S. and Mexico borders, and the views offer a mix of steep-walled river canyons and wide-open waterways with 12 public boat ramps and 7 paddling trails.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2025
  • One side of our canyon is scorched bare, yet miraculously, firefighters managed to save our little community with 30 structures lost.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • California’s largest fire in 2024 started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico.
    Virginia Iglesias, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Hirschfield raped Gonsalves and dumped both of the teenagers’ bodies in a ravine about 30 miles east of Davis in Sacramento County, where they were found by police three days later.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The phenomenon results from rapid tidal currents squeezing between two gorges, making the water rush as quickly and dramatically as, well, a waterfall, only horizontally.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia New River Gorge National Park packs an adventurous punch in its svelte 73,000 acres, protecting 53 miles of the class IV New River and the steep, rocky gorge around it.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The glen runs straight through the distillery in an earth-floor warehouse, granting it instant exposure to its naturally abundant environment.
    Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Beyond the loch itself, guests can head out on foot to explore the hills and glens of The Trossachs National Park.
    Irenie Forshaw, The Week UK, theweek, 25 June 2024
Noun
  • By day, the stick insect hid in tree hollows, often congregating in significant numbers for shelter, with reports of as many as 60 insects found in a single hollow.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • More than 24 hours of labor — augmented with Pitocin, to make contractions stronger — had left a deep hollow above his forehead.
    Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Its views extend across hills and vales to the village of Vila de Frades and beyond, to the more bustling town of Vidigueira.
    Mary Lussiana, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Why should only suffering be a vale of soul-making, why shouldn’t the soul be made of this moment, too, this unremarkable moment, remember this.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Look at Georgie’s gorgeous kids and the lovely hills and dales of Wales.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
  • As flushing and pointing breeds pound the uplands for miles, retrievers make repeated swims in icy water or hounds run over hill and dale, their bodies shift from using carbs for quick energy needs to tapping into fat as an energy source.
    Brian Lynn, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2020

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“Valley.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valley. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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