How to Use mountainside in a Sentence

mountainside

noun
  • The sun sparkling off the chalets and storefronts in the small town that tumbled down the mountainside before us.
    Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Less than a minute later, the plane collided with the trees on the mountainside, and then the right wing clipped a ridge.
    Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • The main crash area, now a barren pit in the forested mountainside, is about half the size of a football field.
    Bloomberg.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The group also added a third drop site further down the mountainside.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In the distance, rising flames crest what looks to be a steep mountainside.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Steep mountainside was covered in desiccated brush, and by the middle of the day, the rocks were hot to the touch.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
  • In 2015, a mountainside collapsed in a remote coastal area of Wrangell-St.
    Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • They and other crews had been assigned to keep the fire from spreading up the mountainside.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Winds flow up and down the mountainsides like tides, sweeping away and returning the smog.
    Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The pictures were of a high school classmate–magic-hour shots in a mountainside field.
    Megan Angelo, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
  • High in the San Bernardino Mountains, water seeps from the ground and trickles down the mountainside.
    Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Bachvarov, keen to show off the beauty of the area, took us on a hike to visit the 19th-century Chapel of St. Ilya perched on the mountainside.
    Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
  • Still, good luck finding a DC fast-charger out on a frozen lake, on the mountainside, or even at a bar off the trailhead.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Visible from across Oslo, the ski jump glints on the mountainside whenever the sun shines.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • On the north shore, Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe features ski-in/ski-out access and a mountainside concierge.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • His entire life, Mr. Edris had spent Eid in his village, trekking up a mountainside to roast a goat or sheep with his friends.
    New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • The bus was blown off a mountainside, killing nine Chinese and four Pakistanis.
    Saeed Shah, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Advertisement The dense fog turned me off exploring the miles of trails that cut the mountainside.
    Kevin Lavelle, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Their sturdy roots clung to the crumbling mountainside.
    Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
  • On the mountainside at the edge of their yard, the Geliebters installed a terrace with an outdoor kitchen and dining area that can seat around 30 people.
    Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Locals in the city of Düzce found a honey-drunk bear on the mountainside looking the worse for wear, according to state media.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Dall sheep, who spend their winters high on the mountainside, have mostly escaped the deadly snow depths of the lowlands.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • And to the sinister figures Johannes spots on the mountainside, after Blumberg is found dead in the snow.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • About 400 tourists were stranded on a mountainside known for the orange day lilies covering its slopes this time of year.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 19 Sep. 2022
  • On the eerie, arid mountainside, only the Israelis remain.
    Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • No one was injured as the slide sent rock, dirt and vegetation tumbling from a mountainside above the dock.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
  • In the evening, the mill turns water and provides a complementary soundtrack to the crickets and frogs that live in the thick mountainside nearby.
    Beck Bamberger, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • But the project started in the nineteen-tens, when a Confederate widow called in a sculptor to carve a bust of Lee on the mountainside.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The wreckage of a plane lost in Nepal's mountains was found Monday scattered on a mountainside and 14 of the 22 people on board were confirmed dead, the army said.
    Fox News, 30 May 2022
  • Our team member went down the mountainside and made contact with the missing person.
    NBC News, 5 Apr. 2022

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