Examples of mesa in a Sentence

a mesa in the Arizona desert

Recent Examples on the Web Azura Cellars & Gallery has a prime spot on a mesa above the North Fork Valley; browse the art collection, then with a glass of wine in hand head out to the patio that overlooks the valley floor (azuracellars.com). — Ryan Haase, WSJ, 13 May 2021 The Kearny mesa project spreads over about 1000 acres. — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021 The mesa is home to dozens of species of plants and animals despite scant rainfall, a dearth of natural springs and elevations ranging from 3,800 to 7,100 feet. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2021 On a windswept hill atop a nondescript mesa in San Juan County, Aaron Brewer, education technology director for the San Juan School District, looked out over half of southern Utah. — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020 Reaching the community of Oljato, for example, required a dozen towers be placed in a giant 180-degree bend to bring the signal around a tall mesa. — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020 Her family has been waiting many years for a water system to be built in their community atop a mesa on the Hopi Reservation. — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2020 This vast two-part trench, long enough and deep enough to be visible from space, was cut into a mesa in Nevada. — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2020 Joseph Aguilar, an archaeologist from San Ildefonso Pueblo, recently used drones to examine the topography of Tunyo, a mesa where as many as 2,000 Pueblo people took refuge in the 1690s to face off against the Spanish during a monthslong siege. — Simon Romero, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2020 See More

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