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Six example sentences with canyon, each labelled with its topic.
We hiked the canyon floor at dawn, walking between walls so high the sun never reached us until noon.
Travel
The best light in the canyon lasts eleven minutes, when a shaft strikes the sandstone and turns it orange.
Photography
Cattle grazing above the rim has loosened soil that now slides into the canyon after every summer storm.
Environment
The river cut the canyon through a mile of rock, exposing layers that geologists read like pages of a book.
Science
Powell led nine men down the river through the canyon in 1869, mapping walls no surveyor had ever seen.
History
Moran's enormous painting of the canyon persuaded Congress that the place deserved protection, and it hung in the Capitol.
Art
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