ridges

Example Sentences

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Firefighters were seeking to contain the fire using preexisting features such as roads, ridges and trails rather than carving a fire line through the island’s sensitive ecosystems, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

The oblong ugly vegetable with lizard-like ridges is dark green, holding secrets, grows on thin vines.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

On the plains of northwestern Iran, edged by snow-ribboned ridges, spring nudges almond trees into frothy bloom and a fragile ceasefire brings more traffic onto highways, and more Iranians back to their homeland.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The Algodones Dunes stretch toward the horizon in pale, wind-sculpted ridges, a narrow ribbon of shifting terrain running south into Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The small pile of potatoes we had picked so carefully seemed shrunken and the spots had spread and run into each other, leaving ridges of black.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff