timberline

Example Sentences

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Found from the coast to the timberline, blueberries are in the same family as the huckleberry.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023

The portrait of Sessions is of a man for whom merely ordering lunch seems to be above the timberline of his intellect and curiosity.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2019

Their marriage has “reached the timberline of their affection,” but they don’t notice yet.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015

I’ve stood at timberline on a volcano that seems made of nothing but rubble and hydrothermally altered rock.

From Scientific American • Dec. 6, 2012

For the first time since the mountain had started shaking and erupting, land below the timberline was closed.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone