mountain
Example Sentences
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Trump said the Friday rescue of the first airman was kept quiet so a search could continue for the second pilot, who was wounded but climbed up to a mountain crevice where he was rescued.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
He described the mountain as a place he "loves" because it was where he and others have been able to come together with the sole purpose of getting to the top.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
My maternal grandmother, Marcela Fernández, was born in 1914 in an Arizona copper town to parents who fled the Mexican Revolution before returning to their mountain pueblo in Zacatecas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
"I've already been in floods of tears. There'll be more water coming out of me today than the mountain."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
I’d been surprised to learn that she and Sam were permanent residents of the mountain and would continue training alongside us when they weren’t being sent on missions.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.