mountain range

Example Sentences

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
  • During this time, what is now the Canadian Rockies was covered in water, and animals swam above the ground that would later become mountains.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
  • The most subdued of those was one of the most tempting: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms, which only opened in March, a 12-room, high-end retreat with muted colors, enormous rooms, custom furniture and poolside mountain views.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The image stabilization is good enough to use it on a drone (custom mounts required).
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 12 May 2025
  • The top panel features two sets of 120mm fan mounts that, due to being 20mm offset from each other, also support 140mm fans around 33mm above the motherboard’s top edge.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 1 May 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
  • Specifically, researchers discovered a link between a heart failure diagnosis and having problems with a broad range of mental processes, such as memory, paying attention, and planning.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 May 2025
  • Today, these models are constantly changing, from text-centric tools to multimodal solutions that can work with a much wider range of file data, including images, videos, sound and more.
    Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • This week, several of those beloved songs continue climbing Billboard’s worldwide lists, hitting new peaks and returning to the ears of what must be a massive audience.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Coincidentally, the Fresnel peak is found between 90 and 105 astronomical units.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Buffalo, of course, has competed at the top of the league for the last six years but hasn’t been able to get over the Super Bowl hump.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
  • On the docket for next week: The council’s transportation committee is set to discuss speed humps on Wednesday.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Mountain range.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20range. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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