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    scree example sentences

    scree


    1. I peered at deceitful shadows right and left, almost willing something there to break the solitude, then I'd stiffen when the slightest rustle of scree surprised me


    2. It was a rasping, high-pitched shriek that came in quick bursts: Scree! Scree! Scree! Closer it came, closer


    3. Sheets of Devil’s cape or Angel’s wings provided an echo wall of scree, caught up with the limestone of the ages to provide ripples and lines throughout


    4. “Scree! Scree! Scree!” the shrieks of the animated blue and white birds shattered the quiet gloom of the forest


    5. She considered the mess of boulders, scree, gravel and ash that filled the bottom of the valley, cast Movement on a great mass of it, and lifted


    6. ” She rotated on her axis and selected a boulder that was the size of a small room, about two-thirds buried in scree and smaller boulders


    7. loose soil and pebbles of the scree, and before I could slow myself


    8. It leads to my father’s wine cellar and exits atop the glacier’s runoff scree


    9. but I slipped on the scree and came sliding down, and as soon as she heard


    10. scree and hence had no trees in front that obscured the view

    11. The caravan stopped to rest by a pool below a slope of scree


    12. Till at last he climbed over and slid down the scree,


    13. We led Liskara down a stair of scree to the pool, and knelt at the edge


    14. scree descended sheer into the depths of the water


    15. I hurl the phone over the fence, as far as I can; it lands somewhere on the edge of the scree at the top of the embankment


    16. This is a technique also useful on scree and loose descents for children and the less able


    17. Climbing over rock and scree can soon destroy a pair of smart city shoes


    18. In mountainous country and on high hills, snow and ice may be encountered, and even without them such country can be dangerous with loose scree, steep slopes and crags that have to be negotiated


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    Synonyms for "scree"

    scree talus

    "scree" definitions

    a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff