Defiles Synonyms and Antonyms

Defiles Sentence Examples

• A few defiles pass through this barrier to the other side of the north Greek watershed.

• This was accomplished without much difficulty, but the main body was still in the defiles in rear, when about 3 p.m.

• To cut Alexander's communications with the rear, Darius now committed the error of entangling his large force in the mountain defiles.

• Shortly after crossing the Bohemian-Saxon frontier, and whilst still struggling through the sandstone defiles, the stream assumes a north-westerly direction, which on the whole it preserves right away to the North Sea.

• But all routes are difficult, winding between granite and limestone rocks, and abounding in narrow defiles and rugged torrent beds.