TERRAIN in a Sentence

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For TERRAIN, below is one of 7 sentences:
Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRAIN
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terrain
 n.  piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; area of land; ground
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1  Yet school, which should have been a refuge, is also treacherous terrain for Matilda; its headmistress, is formidable, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils.
2  That franchise was told that the blue was chosen to echo the sky, and the building is more orange and red to resemble the surrounding terrain.
3  Once the rover touches down, the crew will see the landscape through the machine's eyes only. These trips into the forbidding desert help them to develop a gut sense of the Martian terrain.
4  In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.
5  Lots of hunting areas have roads closed to vehicles, the terrain is all flat so it makes it a lot easier.
6  He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
7  Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.