combe
Example Sentences
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Together they went quickly back to the briars and once more looked into the combe.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Still talking quietly, he led Pipkin out into the overgrown combe.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The rough, weed-covered ground of the combe sloped away below them, a long dip bounded on the north by Caesar’s Belt.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
“No, that’s away up by Efrafa. Down here it runs in a sort of combe of its own. Can’t you smell it?”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
