Sentence examples for gorge cut from inspiring English sources

The Colorado River's gorge cut through the desert like a thin wound from a sharp knife.

This upper valley is separated from another terraced reach, in the Middle Orontes, by a gorge cut through the Late Miocene Early Pliocene Homs Basalt.

Wych elm, ash and oak cling to the steep sides of a deep gorge cut by the river; the path makes its way through them.

The arch, spanning a gorge cut by Cedar Creek, is 215 feet (66 metres) high, 90 feet (27 metres) long, and varies in width from 50 to 150 feet (15 to 45 metres).

Following a tortuous course laid out in preglacial times, it flows in a generally northwesterly direction from its source to the Lackan Reservoir, the site of a gorge cut through the Slievethoul ridge.

A series of long, sweeping bends brings you over a brow, and suddenly the view ahead opens out onto empty, bare land, with a smoky gorge cut into it like the Great Rift Valley of Africa.

The Chiffa Gorge cuts across the route between Blida and Médéa.

The other choice is the courageous choice: get out of bed, open the blinds, and look to the east where the Escalante River gorge cuts through the sunlit ridge.

The gorge cuts through a ridge mainly of limestone, with some sandstone.

The latter type, called fjords, are deep, narrow gorges cut into bedrock by tongues of glacial ice advancing down a former stream valley (see glacial landform).

After these falls, the river winds through a number of deep gorges cut out of basalt and, after flowing through a broad valley, enters Kariba Gorge, which is more than 16 miles in length and is cut through paragneiss (a gneiss, or coarse-grained rock, in which bands rich in granular minerals alternate with bands containing schistose minerals, formed out of sedimentary rock).