timberline

Example Sentences

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Found from the coast to the timberline, blueberries are in the same family as the huckleberry.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 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

I walked in the direction from which we had come, and when I reached the timberline, I collected wood broken from the cherry tree, the peony, and the walnut, which is the tree of life.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston