mountainous
Example Sentences
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The study highlights six main dangers that surging glaciers can create for nearby communities, especially in mountainous areas:
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
Drones struggle to count items that are covered or hiding, such as cattle in mountainous terrains, and are largely ineffective indoors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
She was “able to amazingly quickly cross quite mountainous terrain,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
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
But these questions were tiny pebbles compared with my mountainous wonder at what had just happened.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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Mexico - Introductory
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