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canyon

noun as in gulf in mountain area

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Given how many visitors pose near the rim of the canyon for selfies, you might assume that most visitors have died by falling from its high ledges.

After five hours on dusty freeways and then winding forest roads, we found ourselves transported into a remote granite canyon full of sky-high crumbling rock formations and trees as thick as houses.

Both pilots were maneuvering around scattered cumulus clouds to get a better view of the canyon, and both entered the same cloud, making it impossible for them to see each other.

Today, the crater is a bleak expanse of rock canyons and windswept sand.

The amenities are minimal at best and the uninsulated container will be chilly on winter nights, but if close to the canyon is what you’re after, you’ve found it.

So when my wife and I moved to Laurel Canyon I spent my first year working night and day on the show.

It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.

As he entered the canyon, he clutched his chest and fell to the sidewalk.

The Biggest Loser is back for its 16th season, with its “Comeback Canyon” edition featuring former athletes.

The protest at Recapture Canyon was non-violent, though there were guns present.

And presently we galloped across a mile or two of level grassland and pulled up on the very brink of Sage Creek canyon.

Cautiously we retraced our steps from the lower end of the flat, and turned into the narrow mouth of the canyon.

Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.

Then he broke off, and when he next gave hint of his whereabouts, it was to hail us from the nearest point on the canyon rim.

Stooping, lest our heads furnish a target, we splashed along in the shallow water till we reached the mouth of the canyon.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to canyon, such as: gorge, gully/gulley, ravine, valley, glen, and gulch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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