mountainous
Example Sentences
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The population of brown bears in Greece's mountainous Western Macedonia region has grown steadily in past decades due to hunting bans and other conservation efforts.
From Barron's • Jul. 9, 2026
Another 300 French firefighters battled another fire in a mountainous district of the southeastern Drome department.
From Barron's • Jul. 5, 2026
“SR-9 is a windy mountainous road,” Lee said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
His loss of popularity is mainly due to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave inside Azerbaijan that was home to 100,000 ethnic Armenians until Azerbaijan took it by force in 2023.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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