How to Use mountainous in a Sentence

mountainous

adjective
  • Most of the land is mountainous desert.
    — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The terrain is more mountainous and the soils are much more acidic.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The mountainous park is known for snow slides and avalanches.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Because there’s not just one mountainous event in the episode.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The terrain is mountainous, a mix of desert and semidesert plains.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • One such home stood out against the mountainous landscape, half-burned from the top.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
  • Above all alone guy patrolling a vast swath of mountainous terrain has to be crafty.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The new species lives in a mountainous woodland habitat, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • Eta will be moving across a mountainous area once inland, which could tear the storm apart.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 3 Nov. 2020
  • While the mountainous terrain was calm, the hills and sights were perfect.
    — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2022
  • The terrain is mountainous, a mix of desert and semi-desert plains.
    — Ope Adetayo, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • All of them are the slopes and foothills of this mountainous region, with none on the valley floor.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
  • All feature a mountainous dashboard packed with easy-to-use switchgear.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The mountainous area draws billionaires from across the globe.
    — Propublica, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In addition, many of these mountainous areas are too cold, rocky and steep to grow crops.
    — Sara Place, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Two live conflicts in this same broken, mountainous arc mean risks have more than doubled.
    — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Most of this rainfall occurred in the mountainous regions of the state.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2022
  • The area was in the countryside, mountainous, full of trees, with a creek nearby.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • As well as the main crossing at Torkham, a rich choice of tracks led across the mountainous frontier.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Guatemala is a mountainous country.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The van weaved through the mountainous Highlands, glassy lakes, and frosty hillsides.
    — Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
  • Desert life is a mountainous landscape of tanks blown up and reduced to the size of banquet tables.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Getting organized is at the top of this list—a mountainous task that spans the entire house.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In hilly or mountainous county, pin benches between two ridges.
    — M.d. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The area is beautiful and mountainous and offers mighty fine deer and elk hunting.
    — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • At the same time, massive windows will frame the mountainous views and make guests feel closer to nature.
    — Kate Springer, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In the West, heavy storms are already starting to bring snow to mountainous areas.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The location in the videos appeared mountainous and misty.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Back then, the tall angled ceilings seemed to soar and the breakfast combos looked mountainous.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026

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