glen
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The glen is a large area of thickly wooded hillsides and glens with a river, streams and lochs south of Inverness.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
Rosie was pulled up to a stretcher, from where she could be carried down the glen to an ambulance.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
Each non-Pee-wee appearance required the audience to recalibrate our expectations and remove Reubens from the glen plaid suits and pomade-slicked hairdo for which we came to know him.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
Indeed, consumers may want their vehicles not only to look good in, say, a wooded glen, but also to project the very idea that they care about wooded glens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
And so they came at last deep into the glen; and there stood a sheer wall of rock, and in the wall the Dark Door gaped before them like the mouth of night.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Below Backwater, at the foot of the Angus glens, lies the little town of Kirriemuir - best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan's creator, JM Barrie.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
Although most of the park fills up daily with birthday parties, off-leash dogs, and brass bands, it’s also home to a network of shady glens, murmuring creeks, and still ponds.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
Indeed, consumers may want their vehicles not only to look good in, say, a wooded glen, but also to project the very idea that they care about wooded glens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
"Temperatures could get down to -10°C in sheltered glens, or across high ground areas of Scotland where there is lying snow," the Met Office said.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2023
There were no natural glens in all of Bakersfield.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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