The gap was deep, steep-sided and too wide to leap. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
We were coming down a steep-sided canyon, Lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Volley after volley plunged down into the steep-sided cutting. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
The Beklavacs themselves were steep-sided and densely overgrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
On the far side the ground dropped off into a steep-sided ravine. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
It is steep-sided and rugged, with no flat land or adjacent reefs. From Wordnik.com. [Tubuai tropical moist forests] Reference
At last Barrent was backed into a narrow, steep-sided angle of cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
Then he was out of the foothills, screaming through the steep-sided gully. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
We followed the pass as it wound its way between two steep-sided mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
On many islands, drier areas in steep-sided valleys contain gallery forest. From Wordnik.com. [Lesser Sundas deciduous forests] Reference
The major rivers have carved valleys that are relatively deep and steep-sided. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
Unable to crawl, much less climb, out of the steep-sided, rubble-strewn canyon. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
A steep-sided cone shape is formed around the vent, with a crater at the summit. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 3- The Solid Earth] Reference
Up in the Ghats around Munnar we found on steep-sided vales carpets of tea bushes. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard The Mangala Express] Reference
It was steep-sided and deep enough to keep even a tall Ashregan from climbing out. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Between 2,000 m and 3,000 m lower montane rainforest occurs on steep-sided valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Sangay National Park, Ecuador] Reference
Another steep-sided ridge loomed ahead, clad in its familiar coat of rain-forest green. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
High, glaciated, steep-sided forested ridges north of the Wisconsinan terminal moraine. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
Sheered off by glacial movement, Flattop was a peculiarity among its steep-sided neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
The western Cascades are older, lower, and dissected by numerous, steep-sided stream valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference
They were all steep-sided, smoothly rounded, covered with a tawny dry grass and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spike]
The cone-towers are steep-sided, with an abrupt break of slope at the base and have domed summits. From Wordnik.com. [Purnululu National Park, Australia] Reference
The town of the bird breeders was nestled high in a steep-sided valley and was surrounded by caves. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
When their lofty steep-sided summits appear, some above, some below the clouds, the scene is grand. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
The Meramec River Hills ecoregion is deeply dissected, with steep-sided hills and chert-covered ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
Many large, steep-sided, transverse valleys, inlets, or fjords dissect this mountainous coastal region. From Wordnik.com. [British Columbia mainland coastal forests] Reference
Composite volcanoes are steep-sided, symmetrical cones built of multiple layers of viscous lava and ash. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 3- The Solid Earth] Reference
These crevasses were not deep, but they were steep-sided, so that the dog could not get out without help. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ The End of the Winter] Reference
The land rose there, the rocky hillsides cut by steep-sided gullies prone to sudden flooding during storms. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
This will be a most difficult part of the country for drays travelling on account of the many steep-sided creeks. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
The island covers 122 square kilometers (km2), with coastal cliffs of 300 meters (m), cut by a few steep-sided valleys. From Wordnik.com. [St. Helena scrub and woodlands] Reference
Fiordland is a region of snow-capped mountains, steep-sided fiords, deep lakes, unbroken forests, and tussock grasslands. From Wordnik.com. [Fiordland temperate forests] Reference
As she passed this steep-sided hill the loosely piled snow had slid down and carried with it the dead trunk of a fallen tree. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
The problem was that neither of them could see any way to get down to the green meadow at the bottom of the steep-sided hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Because snow and ice cleared the chutes of larger vegetation, the rocky soil had little to bond it to the steep-sided gorges. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
The montane altitudinal zone comprises the Kemum Land System, which consists of steep-sided deeply dissected mountain ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Lorentz National Park, Indonesia] Reference
In a broader aspect, the topography comprises moderately sharp-crested, steep-sided ridges separated by deep V-shaped valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States] Reference
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