How to Use valley in a Sentence

valley

noun
  • The road turned inland and ran through the shade of a valley in the hills.
    — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Amid so much death, there was a new life in the valley.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Shaped like a large V, the valley draws heat in and traps it.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • Go right and the trail heads back down for a hike through the valley to the trailhead.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Looks like the wind and mixing warmed things up a bit in the valley.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Being up on the hill gave us a great view of the valley. ...
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The workers paused in the shade of a sturdy valley oak tree.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The two reach the valley where Elsa points out a grove and then a tree.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2022
  • To the left of the bow was a valley shaped like a gigantic bowl.
    — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In the 1800s, when the pupfish swam throughout the valley, the Paiute peoples seined the fish for food.
    — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The lower valley was the home of the Ishaqzais, the poor tribe to which Shakira belonged.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Their townhome sits in a small valley, of sorts, and took the brunt of the heavy rainfall.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Key portions of the Trail of Tears start not far from her valley.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2021
  • Foliage seekers rush to Route 12 to get views over the valley as the leaves change.
    — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
  • Since Penn State is in a valley, the weather can turn very fast.
    — Giana Han, al, 16 Sep. 2021
  • There’s a 10% chance of showers over the coasts and valleys of L.A. County.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • Case in point: Gott’s Roadside, the best place in the valley for a burger, fries and shake.
    — Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Kid Laroi is just the latest to hop on the uncanny-valley trend.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the middle are floral notes of jasmine, freesia, rose and lily-of-the-valley.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The city is located at the end of a valley known as the Wadi Derna.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Down the valley, way in the distance, a blue peak gathered a raincloud.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • North Bay: The morning will start off with patchy fog for the Sonoma valley.
    — Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Still others fall somewhere in the middle, in the valley of meh.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • No, not reindeer, but a group of sheep crossing the valley in line with our camp.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The valley then was a patchwork of ecosystems, with grazing land for game, berry and mushroom patches, and healthy, diverse stands of trees.
    — Stephen Maher, Time, 2 July 2025
  • In the early days of April, a low-pressure system blew into Kentucky, parking itself over the region and dumping a mind-boggling amount of water into the Ohio River valley.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025

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