MOUNTAINOUS in a Sentence

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198 example sentences for MOUNTAINOUS, such as:

1. They pitched a camp in the mountain.
2. I started back down the mountain to camp.
3. The climbers had a camp halfway up the mountain.
4. I hates them, like all mountain folks hates them.
5. He fell behind when we were climbing the mountain.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUNTAINOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mountainous
 a.  having many mountains; resembling a mountain in size; huge
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1  Mammy carefully dropped the twelve yards of green sprigged muslin over the mountainous petticoats and hooked up the back of the tight, low-cut basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Her blurred old eyes were bloodshot and red rimmed, and misery cried out in every line of her mountainous figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
3  The headlights blazed on the clots of ice in the road so that the tiniest lumps gave mountainous shadows, and the taillight cast a circle of ruby on the snow behind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  Except when he was steering a big log down the mountain to his mill he had never known such a thrilling sense of mastery.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  The Yankees had taken Chattanooga and then had marched through the mountain passes into Georgia, but they had been driven back with heavy losses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  They had been driven back once when they had tried to break through the mountain passes of that region, and they would be driven back again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  On the steep sides of the mountain they dug their rifle pits and on the towering heights they planted their batteries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  The Yankees couldn't dislodge Old Joe's men and they could hardly flank them now for the batteries on the mountain tops commanded all the roads for miles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Atlanta was crowded with visitors, refugees, families of wounded men in the hospitals, wives and mothers of soldiers fighting at the mountain who wished to be near them in case of wounds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  Her eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  I hates them, like all mountain folks hates them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  With the world a possible volcano, the husbandmen were plowing at the base of the mountain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
15  Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
16  The sun was rising when we got to the top of the mountain.
17  The mountain track is negotiable, but only with difficulty.
18  Climbing the mountain fatigued the whole scout troop.
19  The beautiful view from the top of the mountain took my breath away.
20  They began the difficult descent of the mountain's south west face.
21  The Rockies are a mountain chain/range in the western USA.
22  She was the first British woman to climb the mountain.
23  He fell behind when we were climbing the mountain.
24  The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
25  If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.
26  I started back down the mountain to camp.
27  They pitched a camp in the mountain.
28  The climbers had a camp halfway up the mountain.
29  They haven't a cat in hell's chance of getting over the mountain in weather like this.
30  The Chinese climbers are determined to bid for the highest mountain in the world.