timberline

Example Sentences

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State Parks and Recreation Director Cody Schulz said the campground will be built on former agricultural land on the gorge’s timberline.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 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

I walked in the direction from which we had come, and when I reached the timberline, I collected wood broken from the cherry tree, the peony, and the walnut, which is the tree of life.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston