mountainous

Example Sentences

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Not only is the strait narrow and shallow, the coastline is also mountainous.

From BBC

DR said a follow up deployment included elite Danish soldiers and a French contingent trained for warfare in cold, mountainous areas.

From BBC

This is because some polling stations are located in difficult, hilly terrain – more than 80% of Nepal is mountainous – which makes the collection of ballot boxes a challenging logistical exercise.

From BBC

He was cheated by money changers at the border and was trying to figure out how to get back to Sar-e-Pol province in the north, hundreds of kilometres away on difficult, mountainous roads.

From Barron's

To determine whether these frogs had been significantly underestimated, Chan and his colleagues collected DNA from specimens gathered across the mountainous rainforests of Malaysian Borneo.

From Science Daily