mountainous
Example Sentences
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The underlying work has a mountainous landscape in the style of hit television painter Bob Ross.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
After a couple of months, they went to a mountainous village south of Valencia called Villalonga to live with a woman called Trixie.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Back then, the tall angled ceilings seemed to soar and the breakfast combos looked mountainous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
After Tony Dunn lost his home in a California wildfire, he moved to mountainous North Carolina to avoid more climate disasters.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
He tried to remember exactly what he had seen in the dream, but all that came back was a mountainous horizon and the outline of the little village cradled in a deep valley.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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