Rocky Mountains
Example Sentences
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Since his 2019 conviction in a Brooklyn federal court, El Chapo has been serving a life sentence plus 30 years in a Supermax prison high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The summerlike heat in March broke monthly records in many areas of the Western U.S., accelerating the melting of snow in the Rocky Mountains as well.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
The river provides for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland, from the Rocky Mountains to northern Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
The tragedy has shaken the tight-knit town of about 2,400 people, which is set along a few winding rural roads in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
It is true, for example, that racial incidents, followed by calls for tolerance and understanding, are a more-or-less permanent feature of the American landscape, durable as the Rocky Mountains, familiar as the Mississippi River.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
