terrain
Example Sentences
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Between that and Sydney Chandler’s portrayal of Wendy – not a girl, not yet a mechanical woman – this new chapter is bracingly unfamiliar terrain.
From Salon
Soldiers navigating Hawaiian terrain took great pains to blend into it, shrinking command posts to a handful of trucks, draping vehicles with camouflage nets and vegetation, and painting their faces with thick stripes of green.
A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the shifting terrain in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the site where Apollo 17 astronauts landed in 1972.
From Science Daily
If they landed in the south, soldiers would find themselves fighting through rugged “slow-go” terrain to Taipei.
That reduces China’s response time to a border flare-up and “pushes power projection in that horrid terrain,” Symon said.
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