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