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How to pronounce corrie in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cirque, cwm
Type of basin

Examples of corrie

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Corrie Mersereau, left, and Emily Russell work as lake stewards at Saratoga Lake.
From the timesunion.com
Corrie Thompson added 2 assists while Amy Tyskiewicz recorded the Sabres'other goal.
From the dailyherald.com
Corrie Abel added the second run of the side on a sacrifice fly, brining home Banania.
From the tennessean.com
Corrie survived and, at age 53, began a worldwide ministry that took her to 60 countries.
From the ocregister.com
Corrie ten Boom was already in her mid-seventies when the Sherrills first heard about her.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A corrie is a deep bowl in the high Scottish mountains familiar to lovers of the Highlands.
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Corrie was later released, due to what later proved a clerical error.
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Corrie should take note that Jake did keep Vienna in the final four.
From the suntimes.com
Corrie happily told Brown both had given his organisation a tick.
From the theaustralian.com.au
More examples
  • Cirque: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
  • A cirque (French for "circus") or corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a "kettle") is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. ...
  • A Scottish surname; A male given name, occasional transferred use of the surname; A female given name, diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia; Coronation Street (soap opera)
  • A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation
  • (also known as a cirque or cwm) a great bowl-shaped hollow at the head of a glacial valley. Accumulation of snow in a depression over many years forms a niche glacier which then erodes the corrie by plucking and abrasion in a rotational movement. ...
  • A circular hollow in hillside (cauldron)
  • A large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom (Scotland)
  • (n.) literally, "kettle"; a deep, steep-walled basin on a mountain, usually forming the blunt end of a valley