timberline

Example Sentences

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State Parks and Recreation Director Cody Schulz said the campground will be built on former agricultural land on the gorge’s timberline.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Their marriage has “reached the timberline of their affection,” but they don’t notice yet.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015

Success rates with air bags seem to be higher in places where avalanches slide mostly above timberline, like Alaska and Europe.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2012

I’ve stood at timberline on a volcano that seems made of nothing but rubble and hydrothermally altered rock.

From Scientific American • Dec. 6, 2012

Squinting against the gray glare and against the cold and by now steady wind that made his eyes water, he searched the opposite timberline for the gunman, but could see nothing.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols