How to Use mountainous in a Sentence

mountainous

adjective
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  • The terrain is more mountainous and the soils are much more acidic.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2022
  • All of them are the slopes and foothills of this mountainous region, with none on the valley floor.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The far northern states and the mountainous areas of the West have the best chances, according to the map.
    — Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
  • One such home stood out against the mountainous landscape, half-burned from the top.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
  • Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The new species lives in a mountainous woodland habitat, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • While the mountainous terrain was calm, the hills and sights were perfect.
    — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2022
  • Because there’s not just one mountainous event in the episode.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2022
  • One of the agents called the Fire Department, but their trucks could not make it all the way down the mountainous border road.
    — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The mountainous area draws billionaires from across the globe.
    — Propublica, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The van weaved through the mountainous Highlands, glassy lakes, and frosty hillsides.
    — Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
  • The area was in the countryside, mountainous, full of trees, with a creek nearby.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Most of this rainfall occurred in the mountainous regions of the state.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2022
  • The Swiss lay claim, as do the French—specifically, the French from the mountainous region of Savoy.
    — Hannah Selinger, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The helicopter came down near Blair Mountain, in a mountainous part of the state.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Many people were still buried under the rubble in the area in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau.
    — Jay Ganglani, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In the mountainous, desert landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, a small, scaly reptile scurries across the sand.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
  • One of the highlights of the house is the music room, which features stunning views of the pool and mountainous landscape.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2022
  • The fire, which as been dubbed the Bemis Fire, is burning in steep, mountainous terrain near the Arethusa Falls trail.
    — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
  • The Quail fire had burned at least 150 acres in mountainous terrain and grassy lands by nightfall.
    — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
  • Sorghum is a star in the mountainous regions of the South, and this pie puts the ingredient center stage.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The mountainous setting of the lake provides amazing views.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Not far from the camp, down a dirt track, the steel-slat border wall abruptly ends at huge boulders – the base of a steep, mountainous area.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s a look at Nepal, a mountainous country on the southern side of the Himalayas of Southern Asia.
    — CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Since health care accounts for just under one-fifth of the country’s GDP, this is a mountainous claim.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The cold, mountainous areas of the West also have a high chance of snow on December 25.
    — Judson Jones and Graphics By John Keefe, CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
  • In the West, heavy storms are already starting to bring snow to mountainous areas.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Mosese was raised in Lesotho, a small, mountainous Southern African kingdom that has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Mosley died in early June 2024 after he got lost during a mountainous walk and collapsed on the island of Symi in the Aegean Sea, only one day into his holiday with his wife and friends.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Colorado's Christmas Day will be cooler than usual, with snow expected to fall in the mountainous regions.
    — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024

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