Example Sentences

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Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

In the same way that trees function as Earth's lungs, migrating animals—eating, pooping and dying along the way—circulate nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges to mountain peaks and from the poles to the tropics.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

Streets brimmed with small hotels and cafes overlooking gorges and green valleys.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

Narrow trails rising above deep gorges now forced the company to go in single file.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander