How to Use mountainous in a Sentence

mountainous

adjective

• The terrain is more mountainous and the soils are much more acidic.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2022
• All of them are the slopes and foothills of this mountainous region, with none on the valley floor.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
• The far northern states and the mountainous areas of the West have the best chances, according to the map.
  — Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
• One such home stood out against the mountainous landscape, half-burned from the top.
  — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
• Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The new species lives in a mountainous woodland habitat, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
• While the mountainous terrain was calm, the hills and sights were perfect.
  — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2022
• Because there’s not just one mountainous event in the episode.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2022
• One of the agents called the Fire Department, but their trucks could not make it all the way down the mountainous border road.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The mountainous area draws billionaires from across the globe.
  — Propublica, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The van weaved through the mountainous Highlands, glassy lakes, and frosty hillsides.
  — Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
• The area was in the countryside, mountainous, full of trees, with a creek nearby.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
• Most of this rainfall occurred in the mountainous regions of the state.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2022
• The Swiss lay claim, as do the French—specifically, the French from the mountainous region of Savoy.
  — Hannah Selinger, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2022
• The helicopter came down near Blair Mountain, in a mountainous part of the state.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Many people were still buried under the rubble in the area in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau.
  — Jay Ganglani, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the mountainous, desert landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, a small, scaly reptile scurries across the sand.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• One of the highlights of the house is the music room, which features stunning views of the pool and mountainous landscape.
  — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2022
• The fire, which as been dubbed the Bemis Fire, is burning in steep, mountainous terrain near the Arethusa Falls trail.
  — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
• The Quail fire had burned at least 150 acres in mountainous terrain and grassy lands by nightfall.
  — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
• Sorghum is a star in the mountainous regions of the South, and this pie puts the ingredient center stage.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• The mountainous setting of the lake provides amazing views.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Not far from the camp, down a dirt track, the steel-slat border wall abruptly ends at huge boulders – the base of a steep, mountainous area.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
• Here’s a look at Nepal, a mountainous country on the southern side of the Himalayas of Southern Asia.
  — CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
• Since health care accounts for just under one-fifth of the country’s GDP, this is a mountainous claim.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The cold, mountainous areas of the West also have a high chance of snow on December 25.
  — Judson Jones and Graphics By John Keefe, CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
• In the West, heavy storms are already starting to bring snow to mountainous areas.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Desert life is a mountainous landscape of tanks blown up and reduced to the size of banquet tables.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2021
• Space aside, the room’s greatest feature is its massive view of the mountainous landscape.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2025
• The areas have similar mountainous terrain, and the ties don’t end there.
  — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025