mesa
Example Sentences
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It has one narrow runway perched high on a mesa with steep cliffs at either end tumbling 1,600 feet to the deep blue Pacific Ocean.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024
The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
The cultural significance of this place isn’t evident to many, even though the mesa, which is about 12 acres, has long been mired in land-use battles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2023
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
I waited on the mesa until the sun was overhead.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
