How to Use mountainous in a Sentence

mountainous

adjective

• All of them are the slopes and foothills of this mountainous region, with none on the valley floor.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• One of the agents called the Fire Department, but their trucks could not make it all the way down the mountainous border road.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The mountainous area draws billionaires from across the globe.
  — Propublica, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Many people were still buried under the rubble in the area in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau.
  — Jay Ganglani, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the mountainous, desert landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, a small, scaly reptile scurries across the sand.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• Sorghum is a star in the mountainous regions of the South, and this pie puts the ingredient center stage.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• The mountainous setting of the lake provides amazing views.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Since health care accounts for just under one-fifth of the country’s GDP, this is a mountainous claim.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• All feature a mountainous dashboard packed with easy-to-use switchgear.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2023
• From Oslo, northern Europe’s most scenic train ride takes you up and over the country’s mountainous spine and into the land of shiplap dreams.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
• All of the rain must go somewhere, but the ground is already wet, and the hilly, mountainous terrain has less surface area for rain to soak into the soil.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Written by Britos, the eight-episode, half-hour thriller follows five deaf teenagers born in a mountainous region.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• One is the largest city in the mountainous region of Western North Carolina; the other is a desert town in Arizona.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
• The film is set in New Zealand, where Englert spent a lot of time in her childhood, growing up in the mountainous regions of the country.
  — Tara Karajica, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
• The 26-year-old Mäder crashed after a left-hand turn on a fast downhill road approaching the end of the mountainous fifth stage into La Punt.
  — Graham Dunbar, ajc, 16 June 2023
• One state was western, the other southern; one was more mountainous, the other flat.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of the major engagements of the war, the battle took place in the rugged mountainous terrain near Chorwon, North Korea.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2023
• First, the cruise travels through the north and mountainous regions, heading up the east coast (as far north as Toyama) and stopping in Kobe and Yokohama.
  — Jennifer Billock, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2023
• The cable car was stranded after a cable snapped in the country's mountainous north.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Aug. 2023
• They can be found in the wild in tropical rainforests and in mountainous regions in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
• The land includes mountainous terrain and rolling hills, grasslands, chaparral, oak and conifer forests along with creeks, springs and ponds.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
• The plane eventually went down in a mountainous area of Virginia, killing all four people on board.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 6 June 2023
• Somewhere in the mountainous region of northern Sichuan, a young woman harvests soybeans alone in a field.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• The mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh has been hardest hit so far with at least 31 deaths, its chief minister said Tuesday.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 July 2023
• The mountainous chocolates usually have a splash of color at the peak or swirling around the body, a hint toward the Grand Marnier or passion fruit filling inside.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
• The white section in the center also makes pointed crests, reflective of the state’s mountainous terrain.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2023
• There's also the Mountainview Dome, which boasts — as the name suggests — breathtaking views of the mountainous landscape.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
• The mountainous area was in danger of landslides because a fire just two years ago had left steep slopes vulnerable.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
• There’s no template for a wine like that, though inspiration comes from the mountainous wine regions of northern Italy.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024