variants
or less commonly cañon
1
: a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
2
: something resembling a canyon
the city's concrete canyons
Examples of canyon in a Sentence
as the scouts made their way through the canyon, they marveled at the sheer walls of rock on both sides
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The distance to the sheep across the canyon seemed considerably more than the 200 yards for which my sporterized 1917 Enfield with 3X Weaver scope was sighted.
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Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Severe debris flow are expected across roads and in remote canyon drainages on the Kaibab Plateau east of State Route 67.
—AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
At Cairo, the Nile’s canyon was discovered during excavations for the Aswan Dam.
—Elizabeth Fernandez, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
The river flowed through a canyon carved by millennia of water eating at the living rock.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
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Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Severe debris flow are expected across roads and in remote canyon drainages on the Kaibab Plateau east of State Route 67.
—AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
At Cairo, the Nile’s canyon was discovered during excavations for the Aswan Dam.
—Elizabeth Fernandez, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
The river flowed through a canyon carved by millennia of water eating at the living rock.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for canyon
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“Canyon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canyon. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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