How to Use mountainous in a Sentence

mountainous

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • All feature a mountainous dashboard packed with easy-to-use switchgear.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2023
  • From Oslo, northern Europe’s most scenic train ride takes you up and over the country’s mountainous spine and into the land of shiplap dreams.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • All of the rain must go somewhere, but the ground is already wet, and the hilly, mountainous terrain has less surface area for rain to soak into the soil.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • At the same time, massive windows will frame the mountainous views and make guests feel closer to nature.
    — Kate Springer, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Written by Britos, the eight-episode, half-hour thriller follows five deaf teenagers born in a mountainous region.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • One is the largest city in the mountainous region of Western North Carolina; the other is a desert town in Arizona.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Telluride is in a rural and mountainous area, but is one of the more affluent in the state due to the city’s famous ski resort.
    — Jason Gonzales, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
  • The film is set in New Zealand, where Englert spent a lot of time in her childhood, growing up in the mountainous regions of the country.
    — Tara Karajica, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Flooding from Helene tore through the state’s unprepared mountainous towns and killed more than 100 people.
    — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
  • With winter storm warnings spanning the state, voters might be convinced to stay home because of the weather, particularly those living in mountainous regions.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024

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