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Examples of tableland in a Sentence
to the east of the valley lies a vast, fertile tableland
Recent Examples on the Web
It's located on the Cumberland Plateau — a 450-mile tableland that covers much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, with soaring sandstone walls, large boulders, and dramatic overhangs.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
Schuerman Mountain rises in west Sedona, a high tableland that offers commanding views of gaudier formations.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
Their concerns center on Black Mesa, a tableland that rises north of the Hopi villages and that lies partly in the Navajo Reservation and partly in the Hopi Reservation.
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Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Dec. 2020
Lubbock, with its elevation reaching to some 3,400 feet, sits high atop caprock tableland that tapers slowly to the southeast toward Fort Worth and Dallas.
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Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
Alexandra and Yongden decided to walk knee-deep into the tableland ahead of them.
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Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1672, in the meaning defined above
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“Tableland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tableland. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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tableland
noun
ta·ble·land
ˈtā-bəl-ˌ(l)and
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