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How to use valley in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Valley means an elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it. Example: “The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.”

Examples of valley by meaning

nounAn elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

  • The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
  • The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi
  • Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8

verbTo form the shape of a valley.

  • There must be something atavistic in the male blood that makes it rush, relent, rush with the peaks and the valleys, the roundness of Lia's breasts valleying and peaking, the stretch of her neck, the swaying of her hips.2009, Gian Franco Romagnoli, The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books...

More sentences with valley

  • The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.From the entry ring
  • From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.From the entry resonant
  • The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.From the entry twisting
  • The armies came together in a death grip at the bottom of the valley.From the entry death grip
  • The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys.From the entry musciform
  • As soon as we cross into the valley, let's get eyes and ears up.From the entry eyes and ears
  • There is a lovely little church in the valley.From the entry church
  • The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.From the entry look
  • We hiked into a deep valley between tall mountains.From the entry deep
  • We have poor TV reception in the valley.From the entry reception
  • The commander lased the target across the valley.From the entry lase
  • The cultivation of these valleys dates back thousands of years.From the entry cultivation
  • An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.From the entry alabaster
  • The steel works almost fills the valley.From the entry works
  • In those days the North Pass was the only entryway to the valley that was passable by cart or wagon traffic.From the entry entryway
  • A road that sinuates through the valley.From the entry sinuate
  • The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial.From the entry immemorial
  • The fog flowed milkily along the valley.From the entry milkily
  • The serrations formed the hips and valleys of what looked like a series of miniature gabled roofs or rooflets.From the entry rooflet
  • A troop of soldiers, armed with fire-sticks, entered the valley.From the entry fire-stick
  • They farmed this whole valley on the lay system back then, and the lord kept the horses and ploughmen busy.From the entry lay system
  • The river snakes through the valley.From the entry snake
  • The wind whipped through the valley.From the entry whip
  • The stream meandered through the valley.From the entry meander
  • The forest spans the entire valley.From the entry span
  • The Ordos region in the narrower sense is nomadic by history, in contrast to the agricultural and densely populated southeastern loess part that stretches up to the Wei River valley.From the entry ordos
  • The valley marks the exact location where the latter overlaps the former.2022 February 16, Stephanie Chiang, “Magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolts east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry Huadong Valley
  • Rather better reported are figures for coccidioidomycosis, which is more commonly known as valley fever.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 43. From the entry coccidioidomycosis
  • On the north side of the gap there was a steep valley.2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN. From the entry Wong Nai Chung Gap
  • Alarka Laurel is a high-elevation bowl or "hanging valley" about 3 miles across.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
  • The valley floor is so level the slow-flowing current is often tinted brown with accumulated tannins.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
  • She cursed hersen by letting in Devil and brought a curse down on the whole valley!2013, Karen Perkins, Thores-Cross. From the entry hersen
  • Shihu grows on the rocky land close to water in mountain valleys in Liu’an.2012, Li Shizhen, translated by Luo Xiwen, edited by Li Jingwei, Condensed Compendium of Materia Medica, volume 4, Beijing: Foreign…. From the entry Liu'an
  • Armed with binocs, she was positioned on a low rise that overlooked the entire valley.2011, Cindy Gerard, With No Remorse, page 310. From the entry binocs
  • She was sold to a remote valley in the area of Aertai Mountain in Xinjiang province.2011, Wang Yongli, “Curly's Mother Was Rescued from the Slave Traders”, in The Hell and the World, Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry A'ertai
  • The valley was a part of the Aertai natural basin; it was a highly protected area.2011, Wang Yongli, “Curly's Mother Was Rescued from the Slave Traders”, in The Hell and the World, Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry A'ertai

Meaning of valley

  1. noun An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
  2. noun An area which drains itself into a river.
  3. noun Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Full definition of valley

Questions about valley in a sentence

How do you use valley in a sentence?
Valley is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.”
What is a short sentence with valley?
“The forest spans the entire valley.”
What does valley mean?
Valley means an elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

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