We had to pick our way down a steep defile and couldn't help making noise, dislodging pebbles that often cascaded into small rattling avalanches.

Twice, Gil had broken free, each time more frantic, to run toward the false promise of the steep defiles alongside their path.

Shortly, they found the trail entering the narrow mouth of a steep defile.

The only outlet was a steep rocky defile, a runoff for spring floods, that led back up to the steppes.

They had chosen a place for the meeting where cavalry were hampered by steep defiles on either side.

There are only so many ways to ascend from the coast to the higher lands, and they all lead through steep and narrow defiles.

The Tang is a steep defile through which, suddenly, the road falls down to Shiraz.

The road up is a defile, steep, rugged and curvaceous, with a vast pine forest on the left hand.

Skyleth started picking his way down the steep defile.

I ran to the edge of steep defiles, to see the view.