Example Sentences

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You’ll see him at the ticker-tape parade in the urban canyons of the financial district on Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

Police said the helicopter was operated by Airborne Aviation, a company whose website advertises "a doors-off thrill seekers adventure tour" of the picturesque island's waterfalls, canyons, and beaches.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Chuparosa and brittlebush are flowering along the grade and in canyons.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Even so, the seafloor hosts enormous features that surpass the size of the largest land canyons.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson