mountainous
Example Sentences
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Videos on social media appeared to show hundreds of people heading to a mountainous area in south-western Iran to search for the missing US airman.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The Americans were believed to be in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, in a mountainous province of steep ridgelines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The area's mountainous geography makes it doubly vulnerable.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
In mountainous areas, such as Big Bear, several rattlesnakes will live together in dens.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
It must actually be quite a depressing moment—to have slogged through a mountainous wilderness for ten or eleven weeks and to realize that for all that effort you are still but halfway there.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.