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Example sentences for: foothills

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The foothills of the Sierra Nevada harbor rabbit and partridge, while deeper in the mountains lurk deer.
Felipe II’s greatest lasting legacy is El Escorial, a grandiose palace and monastery in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, northwest of Madrid.
Poor soil on the flat terrain leading to foothills or on sandy mountain-ridges produces only low, stunted trees with thick leaves.
Recently it has begun to attract foreigners, too, and two villages in the foothills to the south of Bayan are the most popular starting points.
As its name suggests, this region of the fertile upper basin of the Po river lies in the foothills between the Appenines and the Alps at the French and Swiss borders.