How to Use crevasse in a Sentence

crevasse

noun

• Adelman smoothed the side of the tower with his palm, then cut out a winding crevasse, blowing away excess grains with a metal straw.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The last death in the park from a crevasse fall was in 1992.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021
• Turning from the crevasse, Paul took a moment to stare out at the vista.
  — Erik Weihenmayer, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2017
• In a shadowy crevasse, a red-nosed clown strummed a banjo in the dark.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Stay out of the crevasse in the hour after sunset, or the building will eat you.
  — David Guzman, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
• The rapid pace of erosion caused by the crevasses may cause the glacier to fall apart rather than melt away.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
• But that yawning crevasse could narrow in the months ahead.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
• Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• The snout of the remaining glacier hung above us, blue-grey and laced with crevasses.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
• There's a car jump across a giant crevasse that is just a once-in-a-lifetime stunt.
  — EW.com, 2 Nov. 2023
• The dangers are still there: the crevasses are deep and the slopes are unpredictable.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• Pure white ice could conceal a deep crevasse that leads to a cold and deadly plunge.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• In pictures, Adam leaps seracs and skis at the lip of dark crevasses.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• The man was uninjured but trapped from the waist down in a crevasse along the cliff, San Diego Fire-Rescue said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• The crevasse was wide enough for only one person to descend at a time.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• What happens is that the lubricant mixes with the steel dust and sticks in the tiny crevasses in the stone.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• Paul fell into a shallow crevasse and flailed his arms.
  — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• One of the rangers was lowered into the crevasse by a rope and found Stansfield dead about 100 feet down, Gualtieri said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021
• The Japanese climber fell into a crevasse at about 8,000 feet near the main trail to the mountain, Gualtieri said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2022
• Ladders are used to cross the deep crevasses in the Khumbu Icefall.
  — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
• When the second Sherpa moved towards it, the ladder slipped into the crevasse and pulled the two climbers with it.
  — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
• Lately, the crevasse has begun to build new marsh again, though not yet enough to replace what was lost.
  — Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
• Winchester's nose was about 6 inches from the rock when the tiny creature struck out of a crevasse, quick as a snake.
  — Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
• Two of the climbers were unroped, and a few hundred meters from camp one of them plunged through a snow bridge into a crevasse.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
• His rescue was the second from a Denali crevasse this year of a person not roped to others.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• From an altitude of 310 miles, the laser has been able to see down into crevasses in the ice sheet and measure their depth and width.
  — Jon Gertner, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2020
• Takac's rescue was the second from a Denali crevasse this year of a person not roped to others.
  — CBS News, 7 June 2017
• Takac’s rescue was the second from a Denali crevasse this year of a person not roped to others.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2017
• While installing the devices, one pilot stepped into a crevasse roughly the size of his leg, Hults said.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
• The location of the fall also was about 100 feet above the Bergschrund, Henderson said, a crevasse that often opens in spring.
  — Allan Brettman | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2017

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024