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How to pronounce crevasse in English?

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Type Words
Type of cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure

Examples of crevasse

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After the river level falls next week, work will continue on the middle crevasse.
From the stltoday.com
He crawled out of the crevasse and found himself back on the mountain's slopes.
From the nytimes.com
Each year they can expect some crevasse to open up between income and expenses.
From the time.com
Here at hecklerspray we like nothing more than the cold icy crevasse of hard work.
From the hecklerspray.com
Up to his chest in a crevasse, Fejtek looked down and saw nothing but black.
From the ocregister.com
A small, loose boulder pinned his arm and trapped him in a narrow crevasse.
From the washingtonpost.com
Daly is a big, fat snowball at this point, tumbling downhill toward a gaping crevasse.
From the signonsandiego.com
For the sake of all of us please put a word in the mental crevasse between your ears.
From the economist.com
They spent the following night in a crevasse, confused and lost in a storm.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • A deep fissure
  • A crevasse is a crack in an ice sheet or glacier (compare to crevice, which is in rock). Crevasses often have vertical or near-vertical walls, which can then melt and create seracs, arches, etc.; these walls sometimes expose layers that represent the glacier's stratigraphy.
  • (Crevasses) are open fissures in glacier ice. Crevasses form where the speed of the ice is variable, such as in icefalls and at valley bends.
  • (Crevasses) tend to form perpendicular to tension in the ice and are thus most often seen as horizontal gashes across the face of a glacier, usually concentrated as points of convexity.M
  • A crack in a glacier surface of varying width and depth, caused by the movement of the glacier over underlying irregularities in terrain.
  • A deep crack on the surface of an ice sheet or valley glacier.
  • A deep, usually vertical, crack or split in a glacier, occurs as a result of the brittle ice flowing over a uneven surface beneath the ice. Crevasses can easily become covered by blown snow, even very wide ones. Great care must be taken when crossing ice and snow fields to avoid them. ...
  • A crevasse (crack) forms in response to differential stresses caused by glacial flow. A crevasse may form singly or in a series on the surface of a moving glacier. They range in shape from linear to arcuate and in length from feet to miles. ...
  • Cracks in the ice formed when the ice moves over uneven rocks or when floating ice spreads.