ravine

IPA: rʌvˈin

A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
(archaic) Alternative form of raven (“rapine, rapacity; prey, plunder”) [(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.]

Examples of "ravine" in Sentences

The bed of this immense ravine is at this day called the Charsoo, a
The 'ravine' is within mortar range of the flak bunker at Oakcrest *.
After tracking in the frost awhile, I sat downwind and across a ravine from a doe and two fawns.
The chopper crashed into a mountain ravine on Tuesday, apparently after being hit by rebel fire.
This lonely ravine is called Far Easedale, and at the upper end there formerly stood a cottage named Blentarn Ghyll.
His casual remark to Dr. Werner, and to the landscape, as Grushnitsky's corpse topples into a ravine is a masterpiece of the laconic: "Finita la commedia!"
Designed at the early stages of the cold war by a team of Nazi engineers, the ravine is really an anti-tank ditch, designed as a place of death for the expected American invaders.
But instead of going to his horse, he followed what she called the ravine—really a trickle of muddy water that flowed past the shack and down toward another gully between the rock formations … in which, Reilly saw after only a little climbing, there sat a lean-to made of sticks, peat, and rock.
Then he went to what he called the ravine, still avoiding the path, so that as a matter of fact he made his way up on his hands and knees mostly, very carefully and slowly amongst the loose stones, till by holding on to a bush he brought his eyes on a level with the piece of flat ground in front of the farmhouse.