Example sentences for: gorge

How can you use “gorge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the gorge’s north end, Ryuzu-no-taki (“Dragon’s Head Falls”) is broader but not as high; it has the additional merit of a teahouse, where you can sit and watch the water tumble into the lake.

  • Beyond here the road curves down toward the Tajo, where two more bridges — the Puente Viejo (Old Bridge) built in 1616 on top of Roman foundations and the Moorish Puente Arabe — span the gorge and offer striking views of the chasm.

  • Tunnels, enlarged from natural crevices in the rock, burrow through to the riverbed where the gorge widens into a natural theater (concerts are given on some summer evenings).

  • Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

  • The White Mountains and the Samariá Gorge


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