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crevasse

[ US /kɹəˈvæs/ ]
[ UK /kɹəvˈæs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a deep fissure

How To Use crevasse In A Sentence

  • As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
  • We're just looking down this incredible crevasse , down onto what I recognise as rubbish.
  • Ski mountaineering or touring is a popular Alpine pursuit in spring, when the weather is clement and the crevasses are mapped.
  • We turned to the left, and marched along its edge in search of a "pont"; but matters became gradually worse; other crevasses joined on to the first one, and the further we proceeded the more riven and dislocated the ice became. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
  • Halfway up we became lost in a labyrinth of widemouthed crevasses and leaning seracs, and had to rope up and slow down.
  • This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier.
  • Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
  • It is not known whether they egressed the area to the northwest in the canals and crevasses that are out in that area or if they used the tunnel complexes. CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2002
  • I say fortunately, as Heaven knows what would have happened to us if we had been obliged to cross a crevassed surface in such weather as we then had. The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim
  • As we negotiated our way through icefalls and crevasse fields, I experienced feelings of awe and wonder instead of terror and dread.
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