terrain
Example Sentences
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Dissmann said volunteers searched across challenging mountain terrain in snow and ice, working long hours through the night in difficult weather to try and find the pair.
From BBC
The ruling thrusts the global trade economy into new and unfamiliar terrain.
The huts are owned by the Truckee Donner Land Trust, which warns that the journey from the trailhead to the cabins takes several hours and passes through dangerous avalanche terrain.
From Los Angeles Times
In the brutal terrain of female cliques, beauty remains a potent, if unreliable, weapon — one which Amos, her grin a glistening pink, wryly acknowledges and critiques.
From Salon
The statement also cited a forecast from the Sierra Avalanche Center, which said: "Large avalanches are expected to occur Tuesday, Tuesday night, and into at least early Wednesday morning across backcountry terrain."
From BBC
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