How to Use valley in a Sentence
valley
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The road turned inland and ran through the shade of a valley in the hills.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Amid so much death, there was a new life in the valley.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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Go right and the trail heads back down for a hike through the valley to the trailhead.
—Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022
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Looks like the wind and mixing warmed things up a bit in the valley.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
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Being up on the hill gave us a great view of the valley. ...
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
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Winds could gust up to 70 mph in the mountains and 50 mph along the coast and in the valleys, the NWS says.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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The workers paused in the shade of a sturdy valley oak tree.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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The two reach the valley where Elsa points out a grove and then a tree.
—Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2022
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Their townhome sits in a small valley, of sorts, and took the brunt of the heavy rainfall.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 13 Oct. 2021
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Foliage seekers rush to Route 12 to get views over the valley as the leaves change.
—Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
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Since Penn State is in a valley, the weather can turn very fast.
—Giana Han, al, 16 Sep. 2021
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There’s a 10% chance of showers over the coasts and valleys of L.A. County.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
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Case in point: Gott’s Roadside, the best place in the valley for a burger, fries and shake.
—Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Many of these people have been up in that area, in that valley for a long time.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2022
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The Kid Laroi is just the latest to hop on the uncanny-valley trend.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2023
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Nachtwey came through the Chicago area a year ago and found his way to the Fox River valley.
—Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2021
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The dawn light was sly on the shoulders of the mountains and then spilled color into the valleys.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
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In the middle are floral notes of jasmine, freesia, rose and lily-of-the-valley.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
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The city is located at the end of a valley known as the Wadi Derna.
—Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
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Down the valley, way in the distance, a blue peak gathered a raincloud.
—Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
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North Bay: The morning will start off with patchy fog for the Sonoma valley.
—Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2022
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Still others fall somewhere in the middle, in the valley of meh.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
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No, not reindeer, but a group of sheep crossing the valley in line with our camp.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
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There was a strange college back in the valley behind us called Deep Springs.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
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The couple migrated with their sons from Michoacán to the valley to work in the fields.
—New York Times, 31 July 2022
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At the end of a winding gravel drive, in the valley of two wooded hills here, is a small stream.
—Ainsley Platt, arkansasonline.com, 29 Dec. 2024
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Beau trekked down into a valley with his pack of hunting dogs while Richard and Max hiked to the top of a hill.
—Yan Zhuang Tatsiana Chypsanava, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
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There are 120 miles of nordic trails throughout the valley, all of which are groomed nightly.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2025
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By Thursday, the severe weather threat is forecast to shift eastward toward the Tennessee and Ohio River valleys.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
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Wander trails flanked by native cacti, take in sweeping views of the valley, or attend one of the garden’s seasonal festivals or full moon meditations.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
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