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How do you use Mountainous in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cragged or craggy, plus the exact meaning.

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Mountainous in a sentence

Mountainous meaning

  1. Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
  2. Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering.
  3. Very difficult.

Synonyms of Mountainous

Using Mountainous

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • Useful related words include: cragged, craggy, hilly, rough.
  • In the example corpus, mountainous often appears in combinations such as: the mountainous, in mountainous, mountainous region.

Context around Mountainous

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Mountainous

  • In this selection, "mountainous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, semi, hit, sunny, areas, regions and region stand out and add context to how "mountainous" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include in the mountainous region and a poor mountainous area east. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mountainous" sits close to words such as backlog, casualty and creed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mountainous

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

He said: “Mountainous regions in general do not produce earthquakes of this size. (13 words)

It’s mostly found in the mountainous regions but is tough to find. (13 words)

As the quake hit mountainous areas, access to victims is believed to be difficult. (14 words)

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. (48 words)

Much of the damage experienced in Malawi is in homes built in areas prohibited by law such as in mountainous regions or near rivers where they are battling landslides, unprecedented flooding and rivers bursting their banks. (36 words)

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. (35 words)

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.

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.

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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.

Much of the damage experienced in Malawi is in homes built in areas prohibited by law such as in mountainous regions or near rivers where they are battling landslides, unprecedented flooding and rivers bursting their banks.

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Common combinations with mountainous

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "mountainous" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "mountainous" from authentic English texts.
What does "mountainous" mean?
Mountainous means: Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
What are synonyms of "mountainous"?
Common synonyms of "mountainous" include: cragged, craggy, hilly, rough, unsmooth, large, big, upland. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "mountainous" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "mountainous", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.