Example sentences for: alps

How can you use “alps” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If the latter has drawn on the riches of the seas, Milan and Turin, in close contact with France and Germany just across the Alps, have had the added underpinning of a flourishing agriculture in their Po valley hinterland.

  • In the north, the snowcapped Alps and jagged pink pinnacles of the Dolomites; the gleaming Alpine-backed lakes of Como, Garda, and Maggiore; the fertile and industrial plain of the Po, stretching from Turin and Milan across to ancient Verona; the Palladian-villa studded hills of Vicenza; and the romantic canals of Venice.

  • Many European papers give prominent coverage to news that another avalanche roared through a village in the Austrian Alps Tuesday.

  • A cable car crash killed 20 people in the French Alps.

  • On a more sentimental note, Italy’s Lake District at the foot of the Lombardy Alps — its major lakes are Como, Garda and Maggiore — is the perfect setting for mending broken hearts, breaking mended hearts, and all romantic conditions in between.


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