How to Use mesa in a Sentence

mesa

noun

• The people farmed on the top of the mesa and lived in the dwellings.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
• The 500-foot climbs to get up the mesa are steep but worth it.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 22 July 2019
• The city was built on a plateau, or mesa, above the Valley.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
• Soon the clouds parted and the sun glowed on distant mesas of the red flats.
  — Roman Stubbs, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• There is a long stretch of beach and also a large mesa.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• But Lukens was taken by the mesa’s soils—deep if poor—and cold mists.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• There is no lodging on the mesa other than the three yurts.
  — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• The boom on the mesa also would lead Jonas Salk to build his institute across the street.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Twelve miles or so of hiking across the mesa made for great sleeping that night.
  — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• Hike with caution on the top of the mesa — there are no guardrails, and some exposed sections are windy.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
• Going down a dirt road that clung to a mesa, the hood and front fenders set up a St. Vitus dance.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
• Yellow Jacket Trail and Cottonwood Trail to the top of the mesa: 9 miles round trip.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• Perched on a mesa, the hotel overlooks the Mittens and Merrick Butte.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• Born from earth, fire and water, many recall the oranges, reds and tans of the Southwest’s mesas, cliffs and arroyos.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The town sits on a plain between a mesa and a ridge, next to a border fence still under construction.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• Their trip back home took three hours, their school bus rolling through moonlit mountain passes and mesas, and plains.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2017
• Stop at the Grand Mesa Visitor Center at the top of the mesa for more information.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 19 Sep. 2019
• On a wrenching three-hour drive from the mesa over old logging roads, seven black bears were sighted.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
• Peerwani said King’s mesa colon, the mesentery that supplies blood to the colon, was cut likely a week before his death.
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 May 2017
• This vast two-part trench, long enough and deep enough to be visible from space, was cut into a mesa in Nevada.
  — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2020
• The automobile tracks, made over a wide circle of about half a mile, told how the body in its burlap wrapping had been taken to the mesa.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Suitable habitats for bobcats include foothills, canyons, mesas, and plateaus because of the brush.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Virtually all of the mesa, however, was left out of the Trump boundaries.
  — Jonathan Thompson, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
• Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• Having more than exceeded its footprint on the mesa, the school needs more students, land and grant money.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Also, aircraft take flight from the prominent mesa that acts as the hub of this Table Top/Airport Mesa loop hike.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
• North Table Mountain: Situated at the northern edge of Golden, this gem has 15 miles of trails around and on top of the mesa.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 22 July 2019
• Look carefully to the northeast and the barely visible road cut can be seen crawling up the flanks of a barren mesa.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2019
• The canyon’s iron way, a series of sturdy iron bars that rise up the 450-foot cliff, guides climbers back to the mesa as views of southern Utah’s iconic red rocks unfold at their backs.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• Rifts and mesas lifted, fell, vanished, then reappeared.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024