scree
Example Sentences
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Traveling the canyon on the two-lane highway through Wheeler Springs and Wheeler Gorge is beautiful but slow going, past houses and campgrounds as well as high rock walls that threaten to rain down scree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Up in the mountains, they cling to “pockets in shifting scree, where gravel and rocks form barely the idea of soil,” Chips said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
They parked on the far edge of the outcrop, then continued on foot through a sloping scree field of glassy black stone until they reached a view of the mud flats to the east.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023
To get there, we first had to descend along a trail that switchbacked down a sheer slope of unstable scree.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Irian followed, scrambling up scree fast, but rendered clumsy by the newness of her boots.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
