mountainous
Example Sentences
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The main reason is 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. 5, 2026
Bundibugyo is one of four species or strains of Ebola known to infect humans, named after a mountainous district in Uganda where the first outbreak took place in 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
After a couple of months, they went to a mountainous village south of Valencia called Villalonga to live with a woman called Trixie.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
After Tony Dunn lost his home in a California wildfire, he moved to mountainous North Carolina to avoid more climate disasters.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
The prison is in a rural area northeast of Birmingham, where the Alabama terrain starts to turn rocky and mountainous.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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