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How to use canyon in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Canyon means a valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river. Example: “The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.”

Examples of canyon by meaning

nounA valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

  • John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
  • She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times

More sentences with canyon

  • The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.From the entry yawn
  • Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.From the entry cat
  • She could stand on a rocky surface, scoop up a gloveful of dirt, and explore extinct volcanoes and ancient canyons.From the entry gloveful
  • Your mission is to go towards that canyon.From the entry go towards
  • The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.From the entry span
  • I only knew a canyon of vast quaking emptiness with a river of the roughest, churniest despair.2018, Pepper Winters, The Girl & Her Ren. From the entry churny
  • We were escalating up a few hundred feet into the canyon.2002, V. William Barrett, Sticks and Shovels: A Modern Western Mystery, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry escalate
  • The ramps are seen in the walls of canyons incised subparallel to the paleoflow direction.2002 January 1, Stephen G. Evans, Jerome V. DeGraff, Catastrophic Landslides: Effects, Occurrence, and Mechanisms, Geological Society of…. From the entry sturzstrom
  • Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people, page 29. From the entry scar
  • Five hundred and forty-two men moved by jetter to Colorado Springs;thence, by helicopter, to the canyon hideaway.1958 October, Robert Bloch, “This Crowded Earth”, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. From the entry jetter
  • Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 136. From the entry suicide
  • The group stood motionless as an entire stream of creatures emerged from the canyons and then passed through, one after another.2022 November 8, Kay Chronister, Desert Creatures, Erewhon, →ISBN. From the entry creature
  • It's like a huge belly-dumper dropped several loads in the canyon, leaving a 0.5-mile stretch 10 feet deep with gravel.2016, Bill Cunningham, Polly Cunningham, Hiking Death Valley National Park, →ISBN. From the entry belly-dumper
  • Take the metro to Háje at the end of line C for a stroll among the concrete canyons.2007, Neil Wilson, Prague. From the entry concrete canyon
  • An ancient landslide had trapped them in a side canyon, went the story, and they evolved into tiny horselets.2003, Boatman’s Quarterly Review. From the entry horselet
  • In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.1998, George Mckinney, Cross the Line. From the entry flatliner
  • Jungle clung to the canyons, but there were broad expanses of brushland grown with mesquite and agave and flowering redbird cactus.1998, Robert Stone, Bear and His Daughter: Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry redbird cactus
  • Gorman's painting depicts a tall woman wrapped in a serape in Joanie's beloved Southwest, standing in a canyon at night.1990 April 21, Elizabeth R. Brown, “It Was A Woman Who Killed Her”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry serape
  • The canyon ends abruptly on the east side of Roraima, and here a waterfall pours over an outcropping of crystal.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 542. From the entry end
  • Imagine riding your favorite streetbike on a canyon road.1989, Alain Chirinian, Motorcycles, page 60. From the entry streetbike
  • Another was having to “coon” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully.1982, Edwin Van Syckle, “The River Pioneers”, in Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186. From the entry coon
  • Three great rivers rush through parallel canyons in the mountains of southwest China on their way to the coastal plains of Asia.2016 June 18, Edward Wong, “China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Salween
  • At this hour, the canyoned street was a ghost town, and Billy easily spotted the late-model Nissan Pathfinder slowly approaching from three blocks south.2015, Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, The Whites: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 332. From the entry ghost town
  • There was nothing the matter with the mechanicals of Dan's car even now, after a two hundred foot plunge into a canyon.2014, Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive, →ISBN. From the entry mechanicals
  • Speedboarding involves leaping onto long skateboards and zipping down steep public streets and canyon roads at speeds of more than 40 mph.2009 February 25, Noam Friedlander, “Dangerous sport of speedboarding banned from Malibu streets”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry speedboarding
  • Feel like yodeling in the canyon?2004, John Waters, A Dirty Shame (motion picture), spoken by Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman). From the entry yodel in the canyon
  • I eased into the cut-rate canyon by taxiing around Hong Kong -- both the island and the Kowloon peninsula -- to orient myself.1988 April 17, Marsha Dubrow, “HONG KONG”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry victoria
  • Deep canyons in a highly dissected plateau in Yushe County, Shanxi Province, China, expose the fossil-bearing deposits investigated by the American Museum and Chinese team.1987 December, “Year in Review”, in Rotunda, volume 12, number 11, New York: Waldon Press, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry Yushe
  • Many small intercanyon areas have thus been entirely isolated from the surrounding territory and stand out prominently from the canyons below as flat-topped mountains.1926 Dec, William H. Haas, “The Cliff-Dweller and His Habitat”, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, volume 16, number 4…. From the entry intercanyon
  • Great bowl fulls of wild tumbling hills, blue mountains in the distance and a silvery stream—the Umzimkulu—winding in and out among the canyons.1918 November 12, Amy B. Cowles, “Letter From South Africa”, in Campbell Interurban Press, volume 24, number 36, Campbell, Calif.: Harry…. From the entry bowl full
  • While there are canyons and intercanyon areas in which turbidity current and sediment mass failure deposits dominate, much of the deep-water margin was heavily influenced by contour current deposition.2023, David C. Mosher, Mary-Lynn Dickson, John Shimeld, H. Ruth Jackson, Gordon N. Oakey, Kai Boggild, D. Calvin Campbell, Paola…. From the entry intercanyon
  • Even Mike Leahy, famous for sending a Rampage canyon gap on his one-wheeler called it "nuts." High praise from one of the sendiest people out there.2023 November 9, Zander Lingelbach-Pierce, BIKE Magazine, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2025. From the entry sendy
  • One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.2017, Robert S. McPherson, Cowboying In Canyon Country, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry mule
  • Canyon Cultivation director of operations Timothy McMurray sips the bold, rich brew—made with Guatemalan beans roasted by award-winning Coda Coffee in Denver—from a hydroflask throughout the day.2016, Amanda Rae, "Eat Me!: The First Annual Edible Gift Guide (And Lessons Along The Way)", Aspen Times Weekly, 22 December - 28 December…. From the entry hydroflask
  • “All the preparation in the world, all the want-to in the world, can’t put people up those canyons while debris and walls of water are coming down.”2013 September 13, “Colorado Towns Are Left Stranded in Deadly Floods”, in New York Times. From the entry want-to
  • The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry striation
  • Son and father reached the mouth of the canyon and were leading their mounts on foot up a screed hill face that looked down on the tracks.2009, Boston Teran [pseudonym], The Creed of Violence, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry screed
  • It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158. From the entry guyot

Meaning of canyon

  1. noun A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
  2. verb Of water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.

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Questions about canyon in a sentence

How do you use canyon in a sentence?
Canyon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.”
What is a short sentence with canyon?
“Feel like yodeling in the canyon?”
What does canyon mean?
Canyon means a valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

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