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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
Tucked away in a remote Colorado box canyon, the Telluride Film Festival has long leaned into its image as a kind of Brigadoon for cinephiles.
Picturesque Box Canyon offers a rustic bridge, gentle half-mile ramble, picnics and views of rushing waters through a tall, narrow canyon.
They discover the simplicity and warmth of life in a town at the dead end of a box canyon with a year-round population of roughly 300.
But the festival, held in a remote former mining town in a beautiful box canyon in the Colorado mountains, also can be prohibitively expensive to attend and all that talk of “cinema” can be a little off-putting to the unconverted.
Two days later, the Hotshots were battling the wildfire in a box canyon when the winds suddenly shifted and the flames rapidly raced toward them.
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