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How to use the word MOUNTAIN in a Sentence?

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I'd rather ascend mountains on repeat, with a home encircled by eagles, than dwell among city gazes, witnessing gossip and indifference towards fellow humans. For humans construct mountains, complicating lives, whereas a real mountain is simpler for me to conquer.

Yvonne Padmos

added by anonymous
2 months ago

We measure snowpack wall-to-wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack and also how fast it’s going to melt. That’s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west.

Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Part of him will always be on that mountain, we hope that you will help bring Terry home off that mountain with a fair verdict for today.

Robert Sykes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re trying to climb to the tallest mountain and scream from the mountaintops that this planet is dying, and that we are at risk, but the only emotion greater than fear is hope.

Paul Nicklen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He and his wife began screaming and splashing water at the animal, the victim’s wife grabbed a flashlight and shined it on the animal, which they then identified as a mountain lion.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Avi Kwa Ame is the point of Mojave creation; it’s a very important and integral part of our history and belief system, for us, that mountain is a living landscape; it’s like a person. If something were to happen to it, it would be like losing a loved one.

Ashley Hemmers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gliders are an easy way to take bodyweight exercises — like planks, knee tucks, mountain climbers and pikes — to the next level.

Jilliann Schembri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Blizzard conditions will make for dangerous to impossible travel this morning before subsiding this afternoon. There continues to be potential for avalanches in some mountain ranges.

National Weather Service

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Storm total snowfall will likely be measured in feet for many of the mountain ranges across the West.

Storm Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But the elderly have relatively poor repayment ability. On the one hand, it could affect their quality of life in old age, as they continue carrying the mortgage debt mountain and work for the bank until the last moment of their lives, on the other hand, the associated risks may be transferred to their children, increasing their financial pressure.

Wang Yuchen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We currently have the sun all day long as we are lower than the Arctic Circle. Luckily, there’s this mountain to the south of us, so the sun goes behind it and we get a bit of shade for a couple of hours, and then the sun rises again. But it never goes below the horizon.

Henri Robert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tesla is sitting at the top of the EV mountain that every other automaker is trying to climb, it’s easier said than done.

Dan Ives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s completely disappeared. This was the biggest glacier in this part of the mountain range — it was exceptional.

Mauri Pelto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In-park merchandise for Splash Mountain has been sold out for months, as soon as they made the announcement last year that the ride was closing, people have been buying up all the merchandise they can get their hands on.

Clint Gamache

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When in LA, the Mt Baldy mountain range was his favourite place, he would go there as often as he could, julian liked to say ‘I have never had a holiday but I do rest occasionally’ - well he’s resting now in a place he would truly approve of.

Julian Sands

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Heavy mountain snow and strong winds will lead to blowing snow and whiteout conditions at times, creating dangerous to near impossible travel above 4,000 ft in the mountains and passes of Central California and above 5,000 ft for Southern California.

National Weather Service

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At nearly 9,000 feet above sea level, Guadalupe Peak is a mountain environment with associated risks not found elsewhere in Texas.

Guadalupe Mountains

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do not want to create a mountain out of a molehill, when it becomes a big issue for the people of Kenya, the people of Kenya will make a choice.

William Ruto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am very clear that we respect everybody and what they believe in, but we also have what we believe in and we expect to be respected for what we believe in, we do not want to create a mountain out of a molehill.

William Ruto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People can start to finally crawl out from under that mountain of debt to get on top of their rent and their utilities, to finally think about buying a home or starting a family or starting a business.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You're not just starting from where you were 2 ½ years ago, there's actually a higher mountain to climb, but places that were able to build up some of their systems can adapt them to allow for more real-time understanding of public health challenges.

Adriane Casalotti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Planned obsolescence just makes it worse. People now expect to get a new computer every three or four years, a new phone every two years, it's a mountain that just keeps growing.

Jim Puckett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My love is stronger than a mountain that never erodes and flows with a waterfall never ending.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

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