How to Use mountainside in a Sentence

mountainside

noun

• The wake is that night, on the edge of a mountainside a two-hour drive away.
  — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
• Next, avalanches of rock, gas and ash surged down the mountainside and buried the city.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
• In that area, the dirt road bed is cut into a shelf on the mountainside.
  — Nat Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
• The trail zigged and zagged up the mountainside, and Hugo appeared at the end of a zig and kept zigging.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2021
• The sun sparkling off the chalets and storefronts in the small town that tumbled down the mountainside before us.
  — Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• The area is named for the bighorn sheep that come down from the mountainside to lick mud for nutrients.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2024
• Less than a minute later, the plane collided with the trees on the mountainside, and then the right wing clipped a ridge.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Just look at that flock of sheep (above) in the unspoiled mountainside near Shaqlawa.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
• After a few more miles, the road rises to hug the mountainside.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 13 May 2021
• The main crash area, now a barren pit in the forested mountainside, is about half the size of a football field.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• The group also added a third drop site further down the mountainside.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• And the 1937 big cat who ate a woman whole, leaving just her blood stains on the mountainside.
  — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
• In the distance, rising flames crest what looks to be a steep mountainside.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• Steep mountainside was covered in desiccated brush, and by the middle of the day, the rocks were hot to the touch.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• In 2015, a mountainside collapsed in a remote coastal area of Wrangell-St.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• At sunrise the rays set the mountainside ablaze in color.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
• They and other crews had been assigned to keep the fire from spreading up the mountainside.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Winds flow up and down the mountainsides like tides, sweeping away and returning the smog.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
• Flanked by dense forests, the mile-long, 81-acre expanse of land on the mountainside had been stripped nearly clean.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• The pictures were of a high school classmate–magic-hour shots in a mountainside field.
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
• High in the San Bernardino Mountains, water seeps from the ground and trickles down the mountainside.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• Some miss breathing in crisp, pure air on a sparkling mountainside.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
• The fog and cool of the morning had burned away, and the sun was caught by the tops of the cypress trees, which were stuck like arrowheads into the mountainside.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• Fog hung in the air, obscuring the old-growth pines ahead and settling into the hollows of the mountainside.
  — Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2020
• Bachvarov, keen to show off the beauty of the area, took us on a hike to visit the 19th-century Chapel of St. Ilya perched on the mountainside.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
• Experts have been aware that the mountainside has been sliding for decades.
  — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 11 June 2024
• Still, good luck finding a DC fast-charger out on a frozen lake, on the mountainside, or even at a bar off the trailhead.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2022
• Most arrived by buses, but some camped in tents on the mountainside.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• In Chaffee County, that might mean a steep mountainside above tree line.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
• That destabilized a steep mountainside, sending a rock and ice avalanche crashing into Greenland’s deep Dickson Fjord.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024