crevasse

Example Sentences

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The dragon will give Mae the flower, but first she must rescue his son, which has fallen down a crevasse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

He has now been formally identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, who fell into a crevasse aged 25 when working for the organisation that became the British Antarctic Survey.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024

He described a near-death plunge into a crevasse when he failed to detect it beneath a blanket of snow.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024

As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer