MOUNTAINS in a Sentence

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The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUNTAINS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mountains
 n.  plural of MOUNTAIN
 n.  used in name for a group of mountains
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
2  I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit of no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  In a few minutes she had ascended out of that clear field, in among the piled mountains of cloud.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
8  I made fur them mountains, Mas'r Davy, day and night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
9  Ever so fur as I went, ever so fur the mountains seemed to shift away from me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
10  I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
11  So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
12  Now they were seven little dwarfs, that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched for gold.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOWDROP
13  About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
14  The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
15  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
16  The mountains are the most arresting feature of the glen.
17  Thousnds of rivers separate us and thousands of mountains are boundless.
18  They often ride out to the mountains when the weather is fine.
19  The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
20  Heavy rainfall in the mountains caused the floods.
21  There is a superb panorama of the mountains from the hotel.
22  From majestic mountains and valleys of green to crystal clear waters so blue, this wish is coming to you.
23  Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.
24  I still remember the mountains in the north, locked in snow and ice.
25  Range after range of mountains crowd the horizon.
26  The earth tremor made the mountains shake.
27  Some of the mountains in South America have not yet been mapped out.
28  The young pioneers lived in a little log cabin in the mountains during the summer camping.
29  Other people seek the mountains for renewal of their inner lives.
30  On the tops of very high mountains snow persists throughout the year.