ravined
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ravined
Example Sentences
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Governments call them bandits, but they consider themselves rebels, hold sway in an 8,000-sq.-mi. deeply ravined area south of New Delhi.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spot was like a little ravined, hillocky wilderness of sterile rocks, draped with rude vegetation, clinging creepers that twined and twisted through every crevice like green serpents.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
The mountains are bald and ravined by cascades; black cones of scattered firs climb them like routed soldiers; a meager and wan turf wretchedly clothes their mutilated heads.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Benjamin's portion above his brethren has ravined as a wolf.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah
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