crevasse

Example Sentences

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The dragon will give Mae the flower, but first she must rescue his son, which has fallen down a crevasse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Suddenly he disappeared into a crevasse, leaving a hole behind him.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024

Honnold wants to continue even as they approach the center of a crevasse field, where giant cracks in the surface, some hundreds of feet deep, are hard to spot until they’re nearly underfoot.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

I turned and walked to the side, along the gaping crevasse.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart