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Meanings of mountainous in English
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Examples for "hilly"
Examples for "hilly"
1
The terrain of the Five Towns is hilly and therefore offers views.
2
It was more hilly and upland; and the vegetation had altogether changed.
3
The prison van jolted and bumped along the rocky and hilly road.
4
The Scottish Trials was over eight hundred miles of hilly, heavy roads.
5
The latter part of the road to Fellside was rough and hilly.
1
The craggy sides of the rock were visible but in few places.
2
We followed the ledges off to the northeast over several craggy hills.
3
His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
4
His warm, craggy smile revealed a too dazzling set of alabaster teeth.
5
He was neither tall nor short, dark nor fair, smooth nor craggy.
1
Tucked my fingers beneath the cragged edges, set my feet, and lifted.
2
Dorothy had cragged seams on her wrists from what she'd tried to do.
3
Beyond lay the real ascent, steep, cragged, glacial, rising into the dark mist.
4
The old woman, face cragged, waved off Senna's words with a bony hand.
5
Gazing over the cragged summit, he beheld her approaching with a gentleman at her side.
Usage of mountainous in English
1
Mostly U.S. troops are responsible for helping Afghan forces patrol mountainous region.
2
The areas most affected are mountainous regions, the midlands and south east.
3
Many of the country's mountainous rural areas are however hard to reach.
4
The island is 30 miles long, and is mountainous in the centre.
5
This quake struck a mountainous area where most inhabitants are local farmers.
6
The Tibetans are protesting Chinese rule of the mountainous region inside China.
7
The island has stunning scenery, is quite mountainous and has amazing water.
8
Korea was mountainous and beautiful; many trees and plants were in bloom.
9
They are in some places almost mountainous in height and exceedingly precipitous.
10
The blue mountainous shores slipped past in shadowy line against the stars.
11
The tremors struck mostly mountainous areas, causing landslides that blocked some roads.
12
It is in Congjiang county, a grand mountainous area of Southwestern China.
13
Solomon River takes its rise in the mountainous backbone of Vancouver Island.
14
Both Moscow and Washington now operate military bases on its mountainous territory.
15
No longer would the mountainous barrier stand defiantly in their western path.
16
Upper Abkhazia is a small mountainous region which is controlled by Georgia.
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Mountainous across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
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