How to Use valley in a Sentence

valley

noun
  • Amid so much death, there was a new life in the valley.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Looks like the wind and mixing warmed things up a bit in the valley.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Being up on the hill gave us a great view of the valley. ...
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The workers paused in the shade of a sturdy valley oak tree.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Foliage seekers rush to Route 12 to get views over the valley as the leaves change.
    Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
  • There’s a 10% chance of showers over the coasts and valleys of L.A. County.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • The Kid Laroi is just the latest to hop on the uncanny-valley trend.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The dawn light was sly on the shoulders of the mountains and then spilled color into the valleys.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the middle are floral notes of jasmine, freesia, rose and lily-of-the-valley.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The city is located at the end of a valley known as the Wadi Derna.
    Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Down the valley, way in the distance, a blue peak gathered a raincloud.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • North Bay: The morning will start off with patchy fog for the Sonoma valley.
    Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Still others fall somewhere in the middle, in the valley of meh.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There was a strange college back in the valley behind us called Deep Springs.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Beau trekked down into a valley with his pack of hunting dogs while Richard and Max hiked to the top of a hill.
    Yan Zhuang Tatsiana Chypsanava, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Taylor and Cartwright have made a life for their family of three in the valley.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • High of 65 in the valley after an early morning low of 25.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Everyone is stuck in this valley with one road in and out.
    Rachel Raczka, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • And that’s the thing, there have been valleys, there have been FireSpo hashtags, there have been dark days.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The road from this center to the ridge can offer several got-to-pull-over-to-the-roadside views across the valley.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Today, the Cataloochee valley herd is more than 200 elk strong.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • What is the hottest place on Earth?:This is the valley with the highest temperatures.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Some families rode to the top just to breathe in the crisp mountain air and walk between the tall pines that framed the valley below.
    Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • But as the sun rose, a thick fog rolled in over the Savannah River valley, shielding the plant from view.
    Drew Kann, ajc, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Mustafa said about 40 people have been forced from the area, a scenic valley east of Ramallah.
    Susannah George, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Even Chateau de Chambord, the valley’s largest chateau with 426 rooms, had no bathrooms.
    Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Or what about a route at the base of the mountain, where a braided river snakes through a wide gravel valley?
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • The same valley in 2007 ... dry with a shrunken glacier hanging like a panting dog’s tongue over the top of the valley high in the distance.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Will Farley Little King Coffee has some of the best coffee and baked goods in the valley.
    Will Farley, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Israeli bombs were destroying houses and rocket-launch sites across southern Lebanon, in the Bekaa valley, and in Beirut; many of his friends had been killed or maimed.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024

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