How to Use mountaintop in a Sentence

mountaintop

noun
  • In the end, the rains stop, and Uta-napishti’s ark, like Noah’s, gets snagged on a mountaintop.
    Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Clouds hugged the mountaintops, fell around them like a shroud.
    Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And so the issue here has simply been to scream it from the mountaintop and tell the world.
    Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The trip concludes with a ten-mile hike to the mountaintop Spicers Peak Lodge.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Heaven is a mountaintop in the Swiss Alps with a bouclé tailleur and a marabou cape.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2019
  • The Prince then brought dairy cows to his farm at mountaintop Roc Agel.
    Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The God that gave the laws on the mountaintop cares deeply about what happens at the mountain’s base.
    Rabbi Asher Knight - Special To The Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2018
  • Both mountaintop sites need to be clear for the system to work.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • His goal for his students is to teach them to work hard to get to the mountaintop, both in class and life.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Grimeland knows that the path to the top of the VC mountaintop will be a difficult one.
    Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • At the highest point of the pass sits a temple fortress carved out of the limestone mountaintop.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Two were built in 1905: one to a mountaintop amphitheater, the other down to the beach.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Getting swept in the first round wasn’t enough to knock the Tampa Bay Lightning off the mountaintop.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But the next day, things go awry between the boys, who are talking shop on a mountaintop.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Reaching that mountaintop isn’t out of the question for him in Year 2.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But Zaz isn’t the only one with his eyes on the Paramount mountaintop, or at least a crag or two.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The largest of them, cast in iron, flank the mountaintop fortress outside of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien in the rural town of Milot.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
  • That, of course, goes for the football team, which is the king of the athletic department, and so close to the mountaintop.
    Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The mountaintop lot of this two-bedroom home looks out on the mountains and forest.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Fresh snow lined the mountaintops and the rising sun sparkled through the low underbrush lining the trail.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Fritz, who had worked at the mountaintop restaurant at Männlichen as a kid, talked of the changes here over the previous decade.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Dine at Vue 1913, which takes you back to the elegance of art deco, with curves that match the mountaintop.
    Verna Gates, al, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The first rumblings of Oscar buzz are rolling through the mountaintops of Telluride.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Other than those two mountaintops, some of the best spots in Rio to find a sweeping view of the city are in the hillside favelas.
    Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The team that catapulted you to the mountaintop is long gone.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The eerie mushroom cap structures can be found on mountaintops and on shorelines, in cities and in fields.
    Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • But make no mistake: This, for at least the last few seasons, has been their mountaintop.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • That seems to be when the birds on the mountaintop here are still active from the earlier cooler hours of the morning.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2022
  • These engines are able to knock down mountaintops (that weren’t present in Season 1) to almost instantly dam a river—but apparently have a hard time knocking down the city walls.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • López Crespo and Miko rented a mountaintop Airbnb in Rincón to host their inaugural songwriting camp.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024

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