Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuestas
Noun
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Pebble beach, stone cliffs and open sea views shape the setting, while the villa’s southwest orientation draws sunlight through the day and holds the Adriatic in sight until sunset.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026 -
Popular spots like Angels Landing and The Narrows offer unforgettable hiking, especially at sunset when the cliffs glow orange in the light of the setting sun.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
5 June 2026
Noun
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Towering buttes shoot out of waving prairie grasses.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
1 June 2026
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The South Dakota park features over 240,000 acres of rugged spires, streaky buttes, and vast fossil beds.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Kahanamoku first surfed Corona del Mar in 1914, before the surf break was destroyed by jetties in the ’30s, and became friends with the Vultee family, which had a home on the bluffs.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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The Fort Steele railroad bridge, for all its size, lay low ahead of them, a flush span carrying the tracks between those bluffs on either side of the river, its superstructure entirely below deck.—
Eric Moskowitz,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
Noun
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Mette-Marit, 52, was diagnosed in 2018 with pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive disease that damages and scars lung tissue.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 June 2026
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So one of the best teams the World Cup has ever seen left without the trophy and a West German side representing a nation still bearing the scars of the Second World War triumphed.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Noun
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Just beyond the tips of your toes, the precipices and terraces on the walls of the canyon plunged in a series of immense stair steps — down and down again for nearly 6,000 vertical feet.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Just watch out for those precipices.—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
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Coastal cliffs and crags are punctuated by black-sand beaches, and rich rain forests hide a towering volcanic cone.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Cuestas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuestas. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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