How to Use scree in a Sentence

scree

noun
Definition of screenext
  • Imagine East Coast ice on top of Rocky Mountain scree fields.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The fast-melting snow has left portions of hard bedrock dispersed within the soft scree.
    — Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • All around us humans and horses picked their way across scree fields and catwalks, up to the high country.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Keep that volcanic ash and scree from getting into your shoes.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The Pirellis were reasonably quiet and gripped winding pavement, wet clay, and loose scree with aplomb.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The trails around our city are pretty modest but full of scree at the steeper points, and regular running shoes just won't cut it.
    — Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Where mighty glaciers once spilled into Swiss valleys like frozen rivers of ice, a residue of gray scree and boulders remains, spliced through with raging streams.
    — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Meyer recorded pear trees on sterile mountain slopes, on the edge of a pond in wet soil, on screes, in bamboo stands and even in running water.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Down in the belly of the crater, men held the ends of giant black hoses between their legs and moved the nozzles back and forth, directing torrents of water into loose mounds of scree.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • That said, hunters still find the platform appealing, even if their trek to their favorite spot is a short walk down a flat two-track, rather than a scramble up a 30-degree scree field.
    — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2020
  • One installation, made from piles of rubble and scree beguiles the clientele but confounds the cleaners.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 May 2017
  • Large boulders and rock scree slowed his pace — terrible terrain for someone with limited strength in his arms and legs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • All hikes start at the north arm of Saglek Fjord at Silluak, where a rocky beach cradled by steep scree walls (created from rocks sliding down the fjord cliffs) gives way to a broad meadow.
    — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Lots of padding and an extra-wide toe box kept feet comfy on longer days, and tough nubuck leather held up like a champ after multiple thrashings through rocky scree fields.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • Escaping the domehab meant venturing outside in a full space suit and contending with miles of crumbly, sharp volcanic scree.
    — National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2016
  • But without an established path, those intrepid enough to try would often get lost or return in tatters, having battled with scree and brush for miles.
    — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • Many of Myanmar’s jade mines are also exploitative death traps, where workers scrambling over scree are at constant risk of burial by landslide.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 18 May 2021
  • Vanpelt has not yet been found because of the dangerous terrain consisting of snow, cliffs, large boulders, crevices and rock scree, which calls for technical mountaineers, officials said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
  • Rather, one model could arrive with an all-new scree size, that is, a display measuring 1.99 inches diagonally.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • But in reality, snakebites occur most frequently when people (and dogs) surprise rattlers while hiking, running or scrambling over rock scree.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
  • Wax current shrubs, prickly poppies, globe mallow, rare Graham’s tick-trefoil and the ubiquitous sunflowers sprout from seemingly inhospitable volcanic scree.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The scree would provide excellent, sharp drainage, but in their wild native conditions, frequent natural moisture and high humidity provide needed water.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 11 Apr. 2018

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