How To Use Steep-sided In A Sentence
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As the morning gives way to afternoon, the anemic, late-winter sun burns through, lifting the heavy mist and exposing the dramatic steep-sided canyon.
A Nation Passing On the Port
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Potholing, creation of a steep-sided bowlshaped cavity, may be caused by loss of surfacing, basecourse erosion, advanced cracking under traffic or severe weather, or water-induced blowouts.
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Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks.
Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
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The crater was about two miles across, almost perfectly circular, with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim.
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Along the coast, people have crammed themselves into steep-sided stacks of apartments in the clamour for the slightest glimpse of the sea.
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Birch, alder, ash and hazel line the path, and the Grotaig Burn forms a steep-sided gorge for part of the way, the sides of which are covered with ferns and woodrush.
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‘I've got to go see them,’ Gary says, and glissades down a steep-sided bowl to the water.
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The valley is quite narrow and steep-sided, so you do not see out, but it's full of interest.
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The High Coast of Ǻngermanland is the only hilly coastline in east Sweden, a region of steep-sided flat-topped forested hills and cliffy coasts with particularly interesting geology and geomorphology.
Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
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Today the steep-sided pit is a refuge for chalk grassland plants and animals once frequent on the now arable-ised fields of the south Cambridgeshire chalk belt.
Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
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Along the coast, people have crammed themselves into steep-sided stacks of apartments in the clamour for the slightest glimpse of the sea.
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In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan.
The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat
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In another outdoor new year tragedy, a man died after falling out of a canoe as he navigated his way down a steep-sided river gorge in Cornwall, police said.
Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones
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The topography is stunning, all steep-sided wooded valleys and strategically planted game crops.
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The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment.
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In numerous places, where the water dashed against the steep-sided bluffs, rim-ice was unable to form.
Chapter V
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Far below, a gold river cut through the steep-sided gorge.
Crimson Wind
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They followed the marled track to the main road and then along a steep-sided valley.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Norway is a land of high, steep-sided mountains and long inlets, the fjords; Denmark and Sweden are lands of islands and lakes.
Notes and queries: Why didn't the Vikings learn to fly? The bad guy's bureaucratic henchmen; the difference between fur and hair
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He put it back in his pocket and pushed the gas pedal until they were flying through the steep-sided gorge.
Crimson Wind
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Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls.
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The workings were confined to several, steep-sided gorges from which the miners extracted fibre with some difficulty, mostly either by blast-removing overburden to expose benches or by underground mining.
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Dene is a word from Northumbrian English used in Northumberland and Durham to refer to a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn runs.
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Day two, we walked down the steep-sided Hukere Stream to join up with the Travers River, then on to Lake Head hut.
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I almost passed it off as a swan, but a narrow, steep-sided channel with only a thin stream of water was hardly the place.
Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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There, the landscape comprises steep-sided, flat-topped mountains with rocky meadows and semi-deciduous forests on the upper elevations in a patchwork of mostly open submontane forest and woodland savannas.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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Sediment-laden streams carve deep, steep-sided valleys which, where they debouch into adjacent lowlands, produce alluvial fans.
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Its noise came back out of the steep-sided valley like the roar of a wounded animal.
THE LAST RAVEN
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We drove up a steep-sided valley.
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Kata Tjuta, covering about 3,500 ha, comprises 36 steep-sided rock domes of gently dipping Mount Currie conglomerate consisting of phenocrysts of fine grained acid and basic rocks, granite and gneiss in an epidote rich matrix.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
