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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: valleys
abyss
arroyo
chasm
cirque
corrie
cwm
dale
defile
dell
glen
gulch
gully
hanging valley
hollow
inter-valley
landform
rift valley
vale
valley
wadi

Examples from literature

Concentrating on the task at hand, he moved slowly but confidently down the canyon, only to find a large boulder blocking his path. 
He was lying on the floor of the canyon, on his side. 
He worked his way slowly down the canyon, pushing himself carefully between the narrow walls in search of handholds and supports. 
Night had fallen and the canyon was turning cold. 
On April 26, 2003, after spending the night in his truck, he cycled south to the canyon entrance. 
The space between the canyon walls measured no more than a meter across. 
And one night their herd stampeded and was checked only in time to save it from going over the canyon's edge. 
Behind her the narrow and broken trail led to the top of the canyon wall. 
He resumed his climb, and fifteen minutes later the curly-haired cadet stood on the canyon rim. 
I went on down to the gully that ran down the middle of the canyon. 
Jack and Fred looked up and across the canyon at the same instant. 

canyon | American Dictionary

canyon
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkæn·jən/
a deep valley with steep sides and usually a river flowing along the bottom

Examples of canyon

canyon
Their echo and reverb is not accompanied by descriptions of sublime western canyons, tropical beaches or steaming jungles.
The hermit thrush uses a pentatonic scale, the canyon wren all twelve semitones.
Thus, were the canyons at an angle of repose of 30x, they would be y200 m deep.
Once inside the visitor sees all over the walls of the canyons real cactus sage brush and other vegetations transplanted from their natural clime.
This is his yin-yang talisman of figure-ground polarities: one half built with intermittent canyon streets, the other half open with intermittent obj ect buildings.
Also, several bright sinuous features, grading into fans, may be interpreted as gulleys or canyons.
Each bend rewarded me with verdant hillsides, wildflowers, and canyons.
Finally, the uppermost area of the painting contains tall, monumental building and canyon-like streets.
Birds of prey nest on rock scarps and in canyons that are difficult to access.
The equatorial canyon systems are the only regions in the southern hemisphere where the stability increases.
The continuous line and open squares represents the site at the canyon floor.
In the story, a young girl was collecting firewood and, against her maternal grandmother's admonitions, took a short-cut home through a rocky canyon.
Interactions of such waves with obstacles (such as canyons) may cause local blocking events, and it is thought that the periodic quasi-linear theory can be modified to study such phenomena.
It's like walking through a canyon.
Site types that could be particularly suitable to this survey include desert surfaces, duricrusts, pavements, ice surfaces, and large flat-bottomed canyons.
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Collocations withcanyon

canyon

These are words often used in combination with canyon.

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canyon floor
The continuous line and open squares represents the site at the canyonfloor.
canyon wall
The trail down is located on the left side (looking downstream), up against the canyonwall.
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