mountain range

Definition of mountain rangenext

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mountain range Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range. Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026 HunterMoss, the luxury travel company founded by Australians Julie Hunter and Anthony Moss in 2008, has rolled out a new series of supercar tours throughout the legendary European mountain range. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2026 The fact that the mountain range extends to the arms stripes is such a perfect detail and drives the whole look home. Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026 The mountain range features 125 peaks that are 5,000 feet or higher in elevation, with the highest peak, Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026 Starting from the Laughlin mountain range in Mendocino County, the Russian River flows south toward Healdsburg and Windsor before veering west, through Sonoma County to the Pacific Ocean. Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025 This three-room B&B has sensational views of Asahidake and the Tokachi mountain range, and the husband-and-wife owners also own a butcher shop and prepare delicious meals starring local pork sagari. Jen Murphy, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025 Over the great span of time – through the slow closing of a land bridge here or the rise of a mountain range there – species eventually split. David Toews, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025 When ice covered the Sierra Nevada mountain range that bookends the western side of the valley, between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, rivers flowed down to it from the mountains and fed into Lake Manly. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountain range
Noun
  • Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • But Smith’s international bona fides aren’t limited to the mountain.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Strongest winds will occur on the eastern slopes of the San Bernardino mountains.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The items include bed frames, bedding, pillows, white-noise machines, area rugs, desk chairs, TVs and TV mounts.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • When staffing dips, the pressure mounts.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • These include electric vehicles with extended driving ranges, large-scale renewable energy storage systems that can balance intermittent solar and wind power, and lightweight, flexible power sources for portable and wearable electronics.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Chinese retailer, known for its range of cheap ultra-fast-fashion clothing and criticisms of its labor and environmental practices, is nestled on the sixth floor of a more than century-old building in Paris, a city famous for high-end fashion and a recent green push.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The woman used her headlamp light to alert crews and in a photo of the mountain her location can be seen as a white point of light in the vastness of the peak.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps no one understands the ambition of a coach who reached this NFL peak after a steep climb than a West Virginia kid who arrived as an undrafted free agent out of Shepherd University.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Eagles’ hump After weeks of struggles to reignite their passing attack, the Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Jalen Hurts delivered a prolific outing last week.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Mountain range.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20range. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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