Example sentences for: mountains

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

  • The name given Trás-os-Montes — literally, “Beyond the Mountains” — suggests how remote, and even forgotten, it is, even in this small country.

  • From the railway depot and sawmill town of Golden, the highway turns east to one of the prettiest of B.C.’s national parks, in the mountains and quiet lakes around the Yoho and Kicking Horse rivers.

  • “(The cyclist) hopes to survive the 2,020-mile race through the French countryside and mountains to ride down Paris' eloquent avenue, Champs Elysées.”

  • Of the Edo-era buildings that have survived or been restored, the most important are the main hall of Kan’eiji and the Toshogu Shrine to the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu — a lesser version of the great sanctum at Nikko, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture (see page 64).

  • While you've been in Bermuda getting sunburned, I've been up in the mountains (Catskills) all summer, which has been great for getting away but also leaves me somewhat media-challenged--I get the New York dailies but don't have cable or any TV, and even the radio reception is terrible.


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