Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuesta
Noun
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The new age movement brought flocks of people to its buttes, canyons and trails.—
Amanda Luberto,
The Arizona Republic,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Hotel Yellowstone sits on a butte that overlooks the mountain range and each of the property’s 36 suites are privately situated in clusters across the four-acre property.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2024
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Both Scofidio and Diller throughout the years likened their practice to jumping off a cliff but Scofidio perhaps best encapsulated the couple’s ethos in a 2009 interview with Charlie Rose.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
13 Mar. 2025
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The tiny bar occupies a grotto carved into the cliff by San Rocco residents for protection from bombing during World War II.—
Gina DeCaprio Vercesi,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2025
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These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
8 June 2024
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The rim is a 1,200-foot-tall escarpment that rises dramatically above a broad valley, giving you the perfect perch for spotting the show.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
3 Mar. 2025
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During that time, the rover traveled about 1.2 miles along escarpments researchers believe were once part of an ocean shore 4 billion years ago.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
24 Feb. 2025
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Buffalo River Arkansas America’s first National River, the Buffalo River in the Ozarks, offers dense foliage, towering limestone bluffs, and free-flowing, undamned waters.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2025
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Del Mar’s coastal bluffs have long been threatened by erosion.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Oct. 2024
Noun
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On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2025
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The top pick in 2013, MacKinnon, 29, also is on the precipice of becoming the first player in his draft class to reach 1,000 points (362 goals, 637 assists).—
Pat Graham,
Twin Cities,
10 Mar. 2025
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From a gnarly lie in the rough, his third shot from 116 yards found the barranca in front of the green.—
Steve Gardner,
USA TODAY,
16 June 2023
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Clark held his nerve to the end and was right there with him, even after a rare errant shot into the barranca on the 17th.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2023
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“Cuesta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuesta. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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