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crevice - use in sentences
Converse of object
- fill: Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?
- find: I found the crevice tenanted by a colony of Shags, whose young ones were crying lustily for more fresh fish.
- explore: Chandler and Monica find Peg's room key and let themselves back upstairs to explore some more crevices.
Adjective modifier
- rocky: Whilst Brasilicactus are found growing in moist rocky crevices.
- narrow: They can be found resting during the day in narrow crevices.
- tiny: The smoke has to trickle out through tiny crevices.
- deep: Winter roosts: large, mixed sex colonies are found in tree holes, deep rock crevices or buildings.
- dark: You can try to be clever, but we'll always dart Into little dark crevices far from your eyes.
- small: They often grow in a tufted habit in small crevices or fissures on rock faces.
Modifies a noun
- corrosion: The figures for general corrosion rate and crevice corrosion were determined using samples fully immersed beneath rafts in Langstone Harbor for one year.
- nozzle: If there is, get a vacuum with the crevice nozzle attached and very gently clean the fins.
- tool: Clear out all the debris from the work using the crevice tool on a vacuum cleaner.
- community: At Hele Bay, good crevice communities are to be found in the fissures and crevices in the extensive bedrock on the shore.
Noun used with modifier
- rock: Habitat grows in rock crevices, rocky shores, shingle beaches.
- cliff: Black Guillemots also breed in various coastal cliff crevices.
- wall: Grow in rock gardens, wall crevices, in troughs, containers in scree beds or Alpine houses.
Preposition: in
- bark: At its only known extant British site it grows in a crevice in the bark of an ancient oak tree in parkland.
- rock: I think the crevice in the rock above was called either ' The Chimney ' or ' The Cat's Nick ' .
- wall: This hardy shrub will even force its way up between paving stones or grow in crevices in walls.
Preposition: of
- rock: Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes Mary, you showed yourself to Bernadette in the crevice of the rock.
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