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
  • Soon the clouds parted and the sun glowed on distant mesas of the red flats.
    — Roman Stubbs, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Twelve miles or so of hiking across the mesa made for great sleeping that night.
    — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • But Lukens was taken by the mesa’s soils—deep if poor—and cold mists.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Swerve past arid mesa tops and cow pastures all the way to your destination.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enter a ravine and follow gradual switchbacks to a small mesa at the top.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • My grandmother had a five-inch tall plastic version of him on her mesa blanca.
    — Sarah Betancourt, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Riders make their way through a mesa area on Tatooine with options to choose three or four branching paths.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • The boom on the mesa also would lead Jonas Salk to build his institute across the street.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Some via ferratas cling to red rock mesas in the middle of the desert; others hug ledges overlooking alpine forests.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Suitable habitats for bobcats include foothills, canyons, mesas, and plateaus because of the brush.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • 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
  • Having more than exceeded its footprint on the mesa, the school needs more students, land and grant money.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The couple's home has picture windows that frame a desert landscape, willowy green mesquite and a brown mesa in the distance.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trail remains level until brushing past Porter Tank and then ascends a low mesa.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Over the past month, miles of chain-link fencing have been erected on the open mesa, blocking off individual parcels of land.
    — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Perched on a mesa, the hotel overlooks the Mittens and Merrick Butte.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Take in jaw-dropping views of the Painted Desert, a colorful expanse of hills, buttes, and mesas.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The retirement neighborhood sits below a flat-top mesa, with a view of the mountains that ring the Las Vegas valley.
    — Tawnell D. Hobbs, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Stop at the Grand Mesa Visitor Center at the top of the mesa for more information.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 19 Sep. 2019
  • De Jong built hers from scratch on a barren mesa scouted in New Mexico that offered epic 360 views.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024

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