cordillera

Example Sentences

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It seemed like a good idea to many of my other brothers of the cordillera too.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2019

The morning after the knock on her door, Crump trekked up the cordillera, through a soup of fog, mud, and drizzle.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that’s encircled by rugged river canyons.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries because just off the coast the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera to ever-higher altitudes.

From US News • Sep. 17, 2015

With a mixture of sadness and relief, Severo decided that his brother-in-law and his machine must have fallen into some hidden crevice of the cordillera, where they would never be found.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende