RAVINE


Meaning of RAVINE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

deep

After the autumn and winter rains the stream becomes a raging torrent, flowing in places along a deep ravine .

The tanker slipped off the road, rolled over and landed on its side in a 20-foot-\#deep ravine .

The western part of the island is separated from the central mass by the deep ravines between Ribeira Brava and São Vicente.

The path wound in and out of deep ravines , through thick oak and pine forests and dense undergrowth.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A bus plunged 250 feet into a ravine , killing thirty people.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And we were travelling again, through ravine , under totem.

At the Gynn, the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed, facilitating cars reversing in both directions.

Some crouched in ravines, others behind rocks or trees.

The ravine made him think of a painting, but not a painting that he himself could have conceived of or completed.

The ravine was covered on both sides, though not yet filled.

The tanker slipped off the road, rolled over and landed on its side in a 20-foot-deep ravine .

The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car.

There is very little pretty here, only the limestone ravine of Swinnergill Kirk being worthy of the camera.

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