mountainous
Example Sentences
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That represents an enormous demographic shift for a small, mountainous country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The main reason is Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave inside Azerbaijan that was home to 100,000 ethnic Armenians until Azerbaijan took it by force in 2023.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The underlying work has a mountainous landscape in the style of hit television painter Bob Ross.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Back then, the tall angled ceilings seemed to soar and the breakfast combos looked mountainous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
That upwelling magma is responsible for the breathtaking mountainous landscape of Japan, and those subducting plates cause most of the earthquakes that shake the country.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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