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
For the first time since the mountain had started shaking and erupting, land below the timberline was closed.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
