crevice
Example Sentences
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I walk out into the courtyard, and when my eyes adjust to the darkness, I hide the parchment deep in one of the crevices in the wall surrounding our house.
From Literature
The peak of Yosemite’s granite wall is higher than the tallest building in the world and requires climbers to navigate a maze of fissures, crevices and cracks.
From Los Angeles Times
The rock walls of this small crevice are dry.
From Literature
On that overcast morning with the F-150, Hummel stood on his tiptoes and reached both arms overhead into the tight crevices under the pickup.
Four years older than me, he was dispatched to an American boarding school in Kodaikanal, a “hill station” scattered across the crevices of the Palani Hills, the eastern stretch of the Western Ghats mountain range.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
