mountainous in a sentence
Example sentences for mountainous
Over one-third of the region's terrain is hilly and mountainous.
Large swaths of the state are also jagged and mountainous, with mountaintops frequently obscured by clouds.
Ninety-three percent of its territory is mountainous and difficult to access.
The ideal locations for fog harvesting are mountainous and desert regions where fog is present but water sources are far away.
Excessive rain can trigger landslides or mud slides, especially in mountainous regions.
At the same time, other rats breathed continuously in a low-oxygen atmosphere that replicated conditions in mountainous areas.
We have mountainous landfills stuffed to the gills with usable materials.
The high elevation, soils and precipitation in this mountainous region provide a distinct environment for producing coffee beans.
Conditions are humid around the coast but become considerably cooler and wetter toward the mountainous interior.
In mountainous areas avalanches and mud slides leave barren paths that soon support extensive stands.
Being a mountainous country, many towns are cool, even in the summer.
If you've ever been close to a river in flood, especially in mountainous areas, it is loud.
These attributes make them durable and dependable even in sparse mountainous terrain.
The island is riddled with sandy beaches and a mountainous, lush interior terrain full of gorgeous scenery.
The road is in good condition, but the area is mountainous and curvy.
By land the countries are either desert, mountainous, or strong enemies.
Not surprisingly, the outside world is unwilling to intervene in another distant, mountainous trouble-spot.
Not relative to trails you find in mountainous areas.
In mountainous regions, too, gazogenes firing wood allowed total autonomy of supply for forestry machines.
Terrain is mostly mountainous dissected by fiords and deep river valleys carved by ancient glaciers.
The waves would have seemed mountainous from his swimmer's height.
The rates dropped rapidly with economic development, especially better transportation networks in mountainous regions.
The island contains beaches and mountainous parks filled with tropical plant life.
When you think of people seeking divine visions, you imagine them trekking to some mountainous cloister.
In general, people are moving to places that are warm, mountainous or suburban.
Eighty percent of the dingoes there are hybrids, and pure dingoes exist in only two remote, mountainous areas.
It has a mountainous central plateau and coastal plains.
Interior areas are high hills to semi-mountainous, parts of which were glaciated.
Modern roads resulted in a radical drop in inbreeding in mountainous regions of the country.
One idea was a golf course, but the valley is too mountainous.
The mountainous regions have less pressure of population and more access to wood.
The mountainous landscape was developed through uplifting, faulting, and stream cutting.
Some of those genes make it more suitable to cold, mountainous regions.
My conclusion is that the moon is non-spherical, with mountainous terrain, and covered with craters.
The town is a thriving rural community with beautiful scenic mountainous views.
The northern side's mountainous terrain is rich in lush vegetation, while the southern area is flat and features sandy beaches.
These are animals that are adapted to chilly mountainous temperatures and they don't fare well in heat.
Yet another kind of turbulence is terrain-induced, and causes problems at airports in mountainous regions.
They'll also experience a split second of weightlessness as they nosedive down the mountainous drop.
Another image showed a fighter jet flying over a mountainous landscape.
Technical proficiency in personal survival in mountainous terrain and snow and ice environments.
Both events were moderate in size and the strongest shaking was in unpopulated mountainous areas.
Explain that many people live in mountainous areas in different parts of the world.
We cannot continue to burden our children with this mountainous debt.
But see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish.
The three say they were hiking in a mountainous border region and have denied the spying charges.
The landscape of the county is rugged and mountainous.
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