Sentence examples for gorge dry from inspiring English sources

During warmer periods the water flowed underground through the permeable limestone, creating the caves and leaving the gorge dry, so that today much of the gorge has no river until the underground Cheddar Yeo river emerges in the lower part from Gough's Cave.

The Mendips were considerably higher and steeper 200 to 300 million years ago, since when weathering has resulted in a range of surface features including gorges, dry valleys, screes and swallets.

We drove back to the town of Tilcara for directions, then took a dirt track west into the Andean foothills, climbing a gorge past dry cliffs and stands of giant cactus.

The trail passes through high mountains and across multiple gorges and dry creek beds.

Deep, dry gorge along river with sparse xerophytic shrubs and herbs; slopes steep, gravelly and with large boulders and outcropping ledges.

Adam could have jumped into a dry gorge a few blocks from the motel and he would have died for sure — the dropoff there was about a hundred feet.

One night after their return, they were standing on the Bridge of Sighs, in the district of Barranco, where lovers rendezvous (they walk it often), and, standing over the bone-dry gorge, he proposed.

After five days, we entered a maze of dry gorges where even a toe-high sprig of grass was a rarity.

Giraffes only nibble trees, and elephants don't gorge on grass in dry months.

Nitmiluk features 13 sandstone gorges which, in the dry season, you can explore on a two-hour boat tour or paddle through in one of the canoes available for hire.

The cromlech is on the floor of a dry narrow limestone gorge containing about 500 acre of woodland.