Example sentences for: plateaus

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

  • Known to many under its Roman name of Apulia, the region stretches from the “spur” of the Gargano peninsula to the heel of Italy’s boot, endowed with a wild and unspoiled beauty over the gently undulating stony plateaus grazed by sheep and goats.

  • There are bare volcanic crags soaring from deep valley bottoms, spectacular waterfalls, high plateaus, and ridged fells with bracken (thickets of ferns and shrubs) and heather.

  • Although there are in fact many bodies of water, much of the charm of the region lies in the landscapes produced by the high peaks, majestic valleys, swathes of forest, and rugged fells (highland plateaus or pastures) that surround the lakes.

  • Mizrahi (or “eastern”) Jews are from West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa, including black-eyed, high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara; and Iraqi Jews, whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times.

  • The plains and plateaus of Picardy in the north and Alsace to the east lend themselves to large-scale agriculture before ending in the gentler, rolling green fields of Normandy to the west and the vineyards of Burgundy that herald the beginnings of the south.


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