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

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

Honnold wants to continue even as they approach the center of a crevasse field, where giant cracks in the surface, some hundreds of feet deep, are hard to spot until they’re nearly underfoot.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

After only a dozen feet, the crevasse widened slightly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss