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

The world got darker and darker as we walked, like the blackness was leaking out of the crevasse and up through the swirling snow to fill the sky.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart