On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Crevasse. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as crack or cleft and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Crevasse meaning
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- A breach in a canal or river bank.
- Any cleft or fissure.
Using Crevasse
- The main meaning on this page is: A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm. | A breach in a canal or river bank. | Any cleft or fissure.
- Useful related words include: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure.
- In the example corpus, crevasse often appears in combinations such as: into crevasse, the crevasse, in crevasse.
Context around Crevasse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crevasse
- In this selection, "crevasse" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deep, dark, mental, rescue, officials and glued stand out and add context to how "crevasse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dark crevasse and a deep crevasse. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crevasse" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crevasse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And this is no shallow ditch, but a deep crevasse. (10 words)
The proposed regulations would allow mountaineers to drop waste in only one crevasse at high elevation. (16 words)
The other members of the team enact a crevasse rescue to pull the fallen climber from the crevasse. (18 words)
A crew of Italian rescuers all survived a helicopter crash on a mountain peak over the weekend before going on to complete its mission to save a mountaineer who fell into a crevasse, officials said. (35 words)
Eugene finds Claire curled up in a rock crevasse glued to her screen and takes her back to the village, driving her into painful withdrawal when he refuses to replace the batteries for her screen. (35 words)
After becoming trapped in a crevasse in the hills of the Moab Desert in Utah, his forearm pinned between a boulder and the rock wall, Aron must find a way out. (31 words)
Example sentences (15)
The other members of the team enact a crevasse rescue to pull the fallen climber from the crevasse.
And this is no shallow ditch, but a deep crevasse.
A crew of Italian rescuers all survived a helicopter crash on a mountain peak over the weekend before going on to complete its mission to save a mountaineer who fell into a crevasse, officials said.
A man who fell into a crevasse while leading a backcountry ski group deep in the Canadian Rockies has died.
It can appear like the whole top half of the painting is lifting off the surface, exposing a dark crevasse.
Mr Courage was later found in a crevasse 30 metres deep and is currently receiving treatment for a number of injuries.
After becoming trapped in a crevasse in the hills of the Moab Desert in Utah, his forearm pinned between a boulder and the rock wall, Aron must find a way out.
I do not know that my thoughts had ever turned that way, but it was true I could not haul myself out of the mental crevasse in which I was stuck.
Swiss public broadcaster SRF says two hikers were partially covered by snow and two others were knocked into a crevasse, but all managed to free themselves.
The proposed regulations would allow mountaineers to drop waste in only one crevasse at high elevation.
During his return trip to the Main Base he fell through the lid of a crevasse, and was saved only by his sledge wedging itself into the ice above him.
Eugene finds Claire curled up in a rock crevasse glued to her screen and takes her back to the village, driving her into painful withdrawal when he refuses to replace the batteries for her screen.
If two rigid sections of a glacier move at different speeds and directions, shear forces cause them to break apart, opening a crevasse.
The movement of the levers corrected the lean slightly, but three years later (two years after Janssen’s death), a crevasse started opening under the observatory.
These areas are eroded at a faster pace creating a hole or crevasse that, through time, by means of wave action and erosion, becomes a cave.
Common combinations with crevasse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- into crevasse 3×
- the crevasse 2×
- in crevasse 2×
- crevasse in 2×