alpine

Example Sentences

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The picture, which now hangs in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a panorama of an alpine landscape, with the snow-covered Cordillera Occidental rising in the distance.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The American, who is regarded as one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time, has had eight operations since breaking her leg and ankle in the women's downhill event in Italy on 8 February.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

In addition, they are prevalent throughout the environment — in alpine snow, deep sea sediment and drinking water.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

To women nodding along while reading tales of alpine divorces and ghostlighting filling their social media feeds, Fusco is the typical catch in the increasingly polluted dating pool.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston