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

Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

Archival footage of the park’s 1971 inauguration shows the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could hug and shake hands with people in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023

The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley