The word 'ravine' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a deep, narrow gorge or valley that is worn away by a river or stream. For example, "The hikers descended into the dark ravine, unsure of what lay ahead."
When the Airbus 320 crashed in a remote, rocky ravine, the impact was so forceful that it left only small pieces of debris and bodies scattered over two hectares.
It's almost like a glossy record that's been thrown down a ravine and scratched and roughed up a bit".
The waterfall, whose names translates as "waterfall of the great ravine", attracts thousands of visitors each year, most of whom admire it from the safety of the Snowdon Mountain Railway viaduct.
The investigation into the crash has turned to Lubitz's background after the disclosure by French prosecutors on Thursday that he appeared to have deliberately downed the plane in a rocky ravine.
La Paz, the capital, is located in a ravine thousands of metres above sea level.
Before he left the house, and before he jumped from a high cliff into a ravine, he had left a note to his family on his computer.
CONSIDERING the current volume of Middle East violence, the blowing up of an empty shed in a remote ravine should sound like faint background noise.
Babur's father died when he was 11, while tending pigeons in an ill-constructed dovecote that toppled into the ravine below the palace, leaving his son in charge of a small province, Fergana.
A sudden view of a ravine with a grey heron winging across it; the moon rising "like a huge rusty coin"; Parmesan cheese, eaten after days of hunger, with "hard, salty nodules" of curd in it; the shock of blue and green phosphorescence dripping from his oar.
At the Humule coltan mine a few gumbooted miners scramble up a red-earth ravine where last year there were thousands.
At the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev, where tens of thousands of Jews and others were killed, several competing memorials have been erected.
