Examples of vale in a Sentence
settled in a lush vale in the shadow of the mountains
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The 2021 Caldor Fire raced toward the South Lake Tahoe neighborhood of Christmas Valley, tucked in a secluded vale.
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
The wind blew briskly over the glacier, and the vale echoed with the sound of frozen boulders crashing down the slopes.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Its views extend across hills and vales to the village of Vila de Frades and beyond, to the more bustling town of Vidigueira.
—Mary Lussiana, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
Why should only suffering be a vale of soul-making, why shouldn’t the soul be made of this moment, too, this unremarkable moment, remember this.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The property is nestled on some 3,654 acres of pristine hills, vales and fields in southeast San Jose.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
Famous for its wheat and wine, this vale on the Syrian-Lebanese border has been a breadbasket in the Levant region since the time of the Romans.
—Aisha Ahmad, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2017
This oblong maze of rocky vales straddles the arid Nevada-Oregon borderlands, in one of the least densely populated parts of North America.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
Or maybe Kyle and Whitney really are together, in the vale beyond the veil.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
The wind blew briskly over the glacier, and the vale echoed with the sound of frozen boulders crashing down the slopes.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Its views extend across hills and vales to the village of Vila de Frades and beyond, to the more bustling town of Vidigueira.
—Mary Lussiana, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
Why should only suffering be a vale of soul-making, why shouldn’t the soul be made of this moment, too, this unremarkable moment, remember this.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The property is nestled on some 3,654 acres of pristine hills, vales and fields in southeast San Jose.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
Famous for its wheat and wine, this vale on the Syrian-Lebanese border has been a breadbasket in the Levant region since the time of the Romans.
—Aisha Ahmad, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2017
This oblong maze of rocky vales straddles the arid Nevada-Oregon borderlands, in one of the least densely populated parts of North America.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
Or maybe Kyle and Whitney really are together, in the vale beyond the veil.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
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“Vale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vale. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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