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box canyon
noun
- a canyon with steep side walls terminating headwards in a vertical cliff.
box canyon
noun
- a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
Word History and Origins
Origin of box canyon1
Example Sentences
The longer option is the Paria Box, a partially wet hike through a box canyon, requiring stream crossings and hiking shallows for about two miles to the ruins.
Colorado’s tallest free-falling cascade tumbles 365 feet down from the head of a box canyon near Telluride crowned with a historic power plant.
This no doubt is to be attributed in large measure to the protecting influence of the box canyon.
“Tom Chavis came to the box canyon at three yesterday afternoon,” she said firmly.
He could now see that the cleft did not run to the top of the cliff, but through it, like a tiny box canyon.
How would you good people like to make up a party to go to Box Canyon sometime in the near future?
There were deep indentations in the walls, running back to form box canyon, choked with green of cedar and spruce and pinon.
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