Black Canyon


noun
  1. a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.

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How to use Black Canyon in a sentence

  • This point, he saw, was a huge Black Canyon that carried the waters from all the hundred hills around.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
  • This was probably Black Canyon; they are the first white men on record to reach it.

    The Romance of the Colorado River | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  • Few details of those long hours of waiting ever came forth from that Black Canyon of death.

    Bob Hampton of Placer | Randall Parrish
  • They planned to accomplish the feat which the former explorers failed to accomplish, namely, to go entirely through Black Canyon.

  • Anything more delicious than the early morning air in the Black Canyon it would be difficult to imagine.

    Clover | Susan Coolidge