Sentence examples for ravine by from inspiring English sources

The SUV coming the other way skidded round me and avoided the edge of a ravine by a wheel's breadth.

His corpse was found in a ravine by the dark desert highway early last Saturday morning, near his motorcycle, bullets in his back, shell casings nearby.

But he made it clear that top justice officials in Chiapas had systematically demolished the crime scene, in an overgrown ravine by the hamlet of Acteal, in the hours after the killings.

Reported from dry soil, n. side of Salmon Creek ravine, by Dudley as L. thymifolia, but Dudleys specimen in the C.U. Herb, from this locality is L. intermedia Leggett.

Countless butterflies could be seen in motion below, a sea of swirling and darting dots of orange and black that rode up and out of the ravine by the hundreds in waves passing overhead.

Down in the valley a Buddhist nun had shown us a stone idol of a goddess called Songmo Halmae – a kind of holy matriarch who had stood on this peak for hundreds of years, watching over the Korean nation, until she was hurled into a ravine by Christian fanatics in the 1970s.

Within hours of leaving the theatre, we would put on our fatigues (we called them "camos"), throw our weapons and accessories in our backpacks, get on our bikes, and ride down to the ravines by the beach.

Often avoids drier ridgetops in forest (Skutch 1969, SW unpub. data), but may be displaced from very humid or wet ravines by Dull-mantled Antbird (M. laemosticta) where they co-occur (Hilty and Brown 1986).

Their homes and property were confiscated, hundreds of thousands of Armenian men were separated and slaughtered with knives and axes in ravines by "special units" of the Ottoman government – the equivalent of Hitler's Einsatzkommandos in the occupied Soviet Union – while their women and children were robbed, violated, starved to death and butchered by the roadside.

The valley west of Altoona was split into two ravines by a mountain; surveys had already found a route with an acceptable grade east from Gallitzin to the south side of the valley, and Horseshoe Curve allowed the same grade to continue to Altoona.

For instance his employment of the double envelopment maneuver against the numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Walaja, and his brilliant maneuver at the Battle of Yarmouk where he virtually trapped the Byzantine army between three steep ravines by stealthily capturing their only escape route, a bridge, at their rear.