Crevasses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CREVASSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• CREVASSE, to make a fissure in
NOUN:
• a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.
• a breach in the embankment of a river or canal.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fissure

Words related to CREVASSES

crevasse13 crevassed15 crevassing16

How to use CREVASSES in a sentence

• In July and August the crevasses show clearly and need not inspire anxiety in anyone, except after a new fall of snow, which may hide the smaller ones temporarily again.
• We plunged at once into the maze of crevasses, finding our passage much facilitated by the previous efforts of our guides.
• No trace of the west shore was visible, and in case the clouds should settle and give snow, or the wind again become violent, I feared getting caught in a tangle of crevasses.
• The marginal crevasses were mostly narrow, while the few wider ones were easily avoided by passing around them, and the clouds began to open here and there.
• Here we got into a difficult network of crevasses, the gathering clouds began to drop misty fringes, and soon the dreaded snow came flying thick and fast.
• After an hour or two of this work we came to a series of longitudinal crevasses of appalling width, and almost straight and regular in trend, like immense furrows.
• Going still better in the afternoon, except that we crossed several crevasses.
• We went on after lunch, and very soon got into soft snow and regular surface where crevasses are most unlikely to occur.
• From this distance the whole mountain side looks a mass of crevasses, but a route might be found at a level of 3000 or 4000 ft.
• Then a heavy pull up a steep slope in wretched light, making detour to left to avoid crevasses.
• One can go at least a mile up the glacier slope before coming to crevasses, and it does not appear that these would be serious for a good way farther.
• If crevasses are as plentiful as reported, the motion of glacier must be very considerable.
• We climbed the ice slope this morning and found a very bad surface on top, as far as crevasses were concerned.
• We soon got out of the worst crevasses and on to a long snow slope leading on part of Mount Darwin.
• Seemed to be rising, and went on well for about 3 hours, then got amongst bad crevasses and hard waves.
• In the broader crevasses this morning we noticed that it was the lower edge of the bridge which was rotten, whereas in all in the glacier the upper edge was open.
• Near the narrow crevasses this afternoon we got about 10 minutes on snow which had a hard crust and loose crystals below.
• My determination to keep mounting irrespective of course is fully justified and I shall be indeed surprised if we have any further difficulties with crevasses or steep slopes.
• An hour after starting we came on huge pressures and great street crevasses partly open.
• Late in the march we turned more to the north and again encountered open crevasses across our track.
• The crevasses were much firmer than expected and we got down with some difficulty, found our night camp of December 20, and lunched an hour after.
• At the end of the second day we got among very bad crevasses through keeping too far to the eastward.
• These crevasses we had never seen on the way up, as they had been covered with three to four feet of snow.
• There is a variety of such crevasses upon the glacier, but the most numerous and dangerous are the transverse and lateral ones.
• Numerous crevasses and fissures, which seemed to extend in many cases for a long distance, made him fear that a slight shock might divide it into several fragments.
• When his feet slipped among the yawning crevasses of the glaciers, the smallest wilful negligence would have buried him in their blue depths.
• He wondered with a dull amazement if the crevasses which yawned before him would swallow him up, or the shuddering violence of an avalanche bury him beneath it.
• Together, they started up, Raud probing cautiously ahead of him with the ice-staff for hidden crevasses.
• Sheets of smoking vapor rose from the sea, sheets of flame-tinged smoke from the crevasses of land volcanoes which the fogs hid.
• The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption.
• He helped the young ladies over crevasses of carpentry and along narrow paths of planking, on which they had made their way unassisted before.
• There are great crevasses, fifty or a hundred feet deep, with slight bridges of snow over them.

Similar words containing CREVASSE without suffix s

crevasse13 crevassed15

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