MOUNTAIN in a Sentence

Learn MOUNTAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
198 example sentences for MOUNTAIN, such as:
1. We retreated back down the mountain.
2. I hates them, like all mountain folks hates them.
3. The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
4. Climbing the mountain fatigued the whole scout troop.
5. The view from the top of the mountain is breathtaking.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MOUNTAIN
mountain
 n.  a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
 n.  (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1  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
2  Except when he was steering a big log down the mountain to his mill he had never known such a thrilling sense of mastery.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  The Yankees had taken Chattanooga and then had marched through the mountain passes into Georgia, but they had been driven back with heavy losses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  They had been driven back once when they had tried to break through the mountain passes of that region, and they would be driven back again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  On the steep sides of the mountain they dug their rifle pits and on the towering heights they planted their batteries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  The Yankees couldn't dislodge Old Joe's men and they could hardly flank them now for the batteries on the mountain tops commanded all the roads for miles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Atlanta was crowded with visitors, refugees, families of wounded men in the hospitals, wives and mothers of soldiers fighting at the mountain who wished to be near them in case of wounds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  Her eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  I hates them, like all mountain folks hates them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  With the world a possible volcano, the husbandmen were plowing at the base of the mountain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
12  Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
13  I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the 'hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
14  I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
15  His iron constitution was somewhat broken by mountain pneumonia, and he had drifted back to live in a milder country for a while.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
2  The mountain area is covered entirely in dense jungle.
3  We retreated back down the mountain.
4  The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.
5  Two men were sent up the mountain while the main party of climbers remained at base camp.
6  The climbers succeeded in reaching the top of the mountain.
7  It's a steep climb to the top of the mountain, but the view is worth it.
8  The climbers stood on the top of the mountain, gazing at the splendid view.
9  The climbers tried to find a new route to the top of the mountain.
10  We didn't climb to the very top of the mountain, but close enough.
11  From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
12  The view from the top of the mountain is breathtaking.
13  The sun was rising when we got to the top of the mountain.
14  The mountain track is negotiable, but only with difficulty.
15  Climbing the mountain fatigued the whole scout troop.