alp

Example Sentences

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Judd added that she recently walked another alp in Ticino, Switzerland, and went on to note that she has to rebuild her stamina.

From Fox News • Aug. 1, 2021

Back at Hyak, a sunbreak offered a peek across the highway to the Gold Creek valley, with mighty Alaska Mountain at its head, as impressive as a Swiss alp and barely an hour from home.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2021

Even now, crouching beneath extinction’s alp, she remains tenaciously, incorrigibly herself.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2015

Its staging — a ring of silken mashed potatoes around an alp of soft braised meat and lush cabbage — suggests a homey German meal by way of, well, Neuschwanstein Castle.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2015

An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson