alp
Example Sentences
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Judd added that she recently walked another alp in Ticino, Switzerland, and went on to note that she has to rebuild her stamina.
From Fox News
Back at Hyak, a sunbreak offered a peek across the highway to the Gold Creek valley, with mighty Alaska Mountain at its head, as impressive as a Swiss alp and barely an hour from home.
From Seattle Times
An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.”
From Literature
“I was up there on my alp, very far removed,” says Meier, 35, who would go on to top roles at brands like Louis Vuitton and Balenciaga.
Even now, crouching beneath extinction’s alp, she remains tenaciously, incorrigibly herself.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
