How to Use mountain in a Sentence

mountain

noun
  • She watched the sun set behind the mountains.
  • We've received a mountain of mail.
  • They both like mountain climbing.
  • That’s a year after the fire raced through the mountains.
    Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • At the bottom of the mountain there’s a bare 12-inch base.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • With this, the mountain to climb was getting the tone right.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The doctor’s horse, Puffer, slipped on the shale and slid about 10 feet down the mountain.
    Ed Wiseman, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In one image, the pair hugged and posed nose to nose in front of a lake and mountain range.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
  • There’s a mountain of pressure on the 19-year-old James.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
  • From under the mountains of rubble, the body of a dead child is found.
    Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • At one point, Combs stood in front of what looked like a mountain of the cases.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
  • North emerged from the mountain, only to meet their deaths.
    Aron Garst, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • That process takes a whole lot of effort, there's a whole mountain to climb.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The mountain is a central peak of the crater, which is a vast, dry ancient lake bed.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 July 2024
  • In another, the tween took the back seat as the actor drove them around in front of a mountain.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
  • That moment capped the group’s two-year effort to climb the burly mountain.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
  • Scotland saw a peak gust of 106 mph in Aonach Mor, a mountain in the highlands.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • As Moses descends the mountain, aware that the Jews have made the golden calf, Joshua awaits him.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In the past, the most common way to reach those snowy mountains required a long, eight-hour drive by car.
    Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2023
  • That post was across a mountain range and about 75 miles from our cabin.
    Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Hit the mountain in these pants that come in short, regular, and long lengths.
    Maggie Slepian, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Park officials closed a trail and the road to an overlook atop the 7,700-foot mountain.
    CBS News, 21 May 2024
  • But as Pearl Jam could surely tell him, this hill may be more of a mountain.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The front side of the mountain offers a range of runs for every level of shredder.
    Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2024
  • If crazy UAPs fuzz up the screen and distract pilots, what about the mountain behind the blips?
    Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Once on the mountain, the two were ordered to get on their knees, officials said.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The feeble sun slid beneath the mountains as Mum called us in for supper.
    Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • For miles, there is nothing but trees, mountains and cars zooming past the twists and turns.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • These cats are native to the mountains of eastern Russia and northern China and have thick fur to adapt to the cold in these regions.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Heidi and her husband have taken their cats on all sort of adventures on a leash since the felines were young, from bike rides, to hikes, lakes, and rivers, to boats, stores and mountains.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024

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