dingle

Definition of dinglenext

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Noun
  • Her outfit stayed inside Browne’s gray suit vocabulary, layering a glen-check blazer with strong shoulders layered over a matching waist panel and pleated detail at the hip, finished with the brand’s red-white-blue grosgrain tab at the hem.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • This is also what allows what’s outside its doorstep to take precedence: the soul-stirring glens, spirit-rejuvenating streams, and craggy peaks of Cairngorms National Park.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Watson Lake: Enjoy kayaking or paddleboarding, or simply relax and take in the beautiful scenery around this stunning lake surrounded by ancient granite dells.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2025
  • The boys both love hotels and taking family trips to the dells or the bay beach.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • If no alternative exists, set up camp in a valley, ravine, or other low-lying areas.
    Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
  • If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and cover your head, or leave your vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Ryan Copenhagen was descending a gully on January 26 when the metal line struck him across the neck.
    Outside, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • On the other side of a shallow gully shrouded by large trees was a clearing several football fields in size, like a meadow.
    Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Altogether, Saguaro is 92,000 acres, with mountains, canyons, 200 miles of hiking trails, and iconic cacti that can grow to be 50 feet tall.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The vacation spots on this list are romantic, but they’re also designed for duo travel—whether that looks like pairing up with a partner to rappel down canyons in Dominica, trying twice as many dishes on a pintxo crawl in San Sebastian, or co-marveling at South African sunsets.
    Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Farther up the gulch, the water formed a pool, which gave off a rank chemical smell.
    Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.
    Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It was built between the walls of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and has a lower volume capacity than Blue Mesa Dam, an earth-fill dam that was constructed in a lower valley.
    Logan Smith, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • These walls block the view of the house for a six footer standing down in the valley.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Stone villages cling to hillsides above orchards while rivers slice through limestone gorges below.
    Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Located in Armenia’s Lori Province, the deep gorge stretches from Vanadzor to the Georgian border.
    Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Dingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dingle. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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