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Mountainous
Mountainous meaning
Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky. | Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering. | Very difficult.
Example sentences (20)
Snowfall is expected in the mountainous areas of Crete, in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of the above mentioned regions as well as in lower altitude areas in Thessaly, Eastern Sterea, Evia and Halkidiki.
Greek authorities had shifted their focus to a mountainous area after CCTV footage from a house emerged which appeared to show the presenter walking towards a mountainous path at about 2pm local time on Wednesday.
Haddadin was attracted to the mountainous site of Ramallah because it was similar to the other mountainous areas he came from.
A heavy machinery works at the the entrance to the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in mountainous Uttarakhand state, India, Saturday, 18 Nov 2023.
A similar regime was in place in Chechnya between 1999 and 2009, when Russian authorities battled insurgents during Moscow's second military campaign in the mountainous region.
As the quake hit mountainous areas, access to victims is believed to be difficult.
Available as an alternative version of Forgotten Waterfall, Mysterious Cove offers one of the game’s most gorgeous vistas yet, transforming Forgotten Waterfall’s endlessly sunny Mountainous New Zealand backdrop into a Dreamy Moonlit Paradise.
Beech Mountain became a winter wonderland in 2001 with 24 inches of snow, offering breathtaking scenes in the mountainous region.
Bhutan’s mountainous terrain and abundant rainfall should not lull us into a false sense of security.
Born to a working class family in a poor mountainous area east of Rome, she studied sculpture then got her break in the film world after finishing third in the 1947 Miss Italia beauty contest.
Communities have strung up scores of cable car systems through the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of steep hills plunging into valleys.
Elsewhere in Albania, popular historic areas include the archaeological sites of Apollonia and Butrint as well as the mountainous city of Berat, with all of them often visited during escorted tours.
Gul Faraz, right, and Rizwan Ullah, survivors of cable car incident, talk to members of media, near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Heavy snow in mountainous areas from California to Colorado continued to make travel hazardous at higher elevations.
He said: “Mountainous regions in general do not produce earthquakes of this size.
In addition to the heavy snow that overwhelmed the state last week, more than a foot of additional snow has already fallen this week in some mountainous parts of Northern California.
In mountainous and remote areas, the subsidy rate will be in the range of 75 per cent of the total expenditure, in rural areas it will be in the range of 65 per cent and in other areas it will be in the range of 50 per cent.
It’s currently unclear how the higher-than-average through California’s mountainous regions will cause ongoing threats of flash flooding from meltwaters.
It’s mostly found in the mountainous regions but is tough to find.
Mr Mehrtens, 37, was taken after his plane carrying five passengers was attacked after it landed in the remote mountainous province of Nduga.