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Meanings of mountaintop in inglés

The highest point of a mountain.

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        Examples for "summit"
        Examples for "summit"
        1
        EU leaders hold a summit on Monday to discuss the Georgia crisis.
        Reuters
        2
        German officials said the issue would not be discussed at the summit.
        Reuters
        3
        EU leaders would review the situation at their regular summit in June.
        Reuters
        4
        The calls come ahead of an European Union summit later this week.
        Reuters
        5
        Eisenhower at the summit: 'What U-Twos?' We'll go along; no preliminary summation.
        The bourne identity
        1
        Behind these, distant and tall, reared the white gleaming peaks of mountains.
        Assail
        2
        Geology borrowed it from Greenland to describe peaks of mountains that stick up through the ice.
        The Irish Times
        3
        So men will be appointed by the government throughout all the empire to watch carefully for the new moon, sometimes from the peaks of mountains.
        Modern Persia
        4
        It is a wild, lone land guarded by the giant peaks of mountains whose snow-capped summits lift themselves 17,000 feet above the sea level.
        The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
        Usage of mountaintop in inglés
        1
        Believe I have seen the mountaintop and am careening down its slopes.
        My Life, My Tapes
        2
        Church groups urge congregants to write to Congress to stop mountaintop mining.
        Reuters
        3
        Thou art even as the last trace of sunlight upon the mountaintop.
        The Promised Day Is Come
        4
        By the tenth dawn no birds had been taken on the mountaintop.
        Vlad. The Last Confession
        5
        The dawn light on the mountaintop made everything so beautiful and blue.
        Stories: all-new tales
        6
        From an environmental perspective, it's the digital equivalent of mountaintop-removal coal mining.
        NY Magazine
        7
        Below the other side of the mountaintop was a platform of forest.
        Lord of the Flies
        8
        They spoke together while Indru and Tlitookilakin waited, shivering on the mountaintop.
        Promise of the wolves: a novel
        9
        The warriors leapt and grabbed onto the cables leading toward the mountaintop.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
        10
        To begin a mountaintop-removal operation, crews clear trees from the site.
        Wired
        11
        Under this and other regulations, environmentally destructive mountaintop-mining operations are supposedly not allowed.
        Wired
        12
        The end came quickly in the blue twilight of the mountaintop.
        Immortality Inc.
        13
        It is done in other jurisdictions and in no way defaces the mountaintop.
        The Irish Times
        14
        Activists have fought a losing legal battle against mountaintop removal mining.
        Wired
        15
        Where the roadway ended, a small path revealed our route to the mountaintop.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
        16
        I couldn't tell which of the many wolves on the mountaintop had spoken.
        Secrets of the Wolves
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        United States of America
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