Rockies
Example Sentences
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A separate system will bring heavy rain and snow to the Pacific Northwest through the northern Rockies.
From Barron's
If your hips ache a bit when you walk the corridors, he says, “maybe you should go take that hike in the Rockies sooner than later.”
Another influence that comes to mind is the old wagon-train western, if packed alongside the salt pork were a few speakers capable of blasting dance music loud enough to shake the Rockies.
By any objective measure, running the Colorado Rockies seems like the most miserable job in professional sports.
Our triple-A team, they’re now the Rockies but we used to be affiliated with the Dodgers so it just goes hand in hand.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.