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
  • In that area, the dirt road bed is cut into a shelf on the mountainside.
    — Nat Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Some miss breathing in crisp, pure air on a sparkling mountainside.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
  • From there, the pink trail ribbons run down the mountainside.
    — Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
  • From here, even miles away, a bald patch of one mountainside can be seen clearly.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Next, avalanches of rock, gas and ash surged down the mountainside and buried the city.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • Then the mountainside levelled, and the sight of the crater purged all thoughts from my head.
    — Lacy M. Johnson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2016
  • After a few more miles, the road rises to hug the mountainside.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 13 May 2021
  • The group also added a third drop site further down the mountainside.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Phillip glanced out the window and saw a mountainside of fresh tinder.
    — Eli Saslow, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Most arrived by buses, but some camped in tents on the mountainside.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In the distance, rising flames crest what looks to be a steep mountainside.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Experts have been aware that the mountainside has been sliding for decades.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 11 June 2024
  • Our plan was to wait on the open mountainside above the deer in hopes that the bear would show up before dark.
    — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The aircraft can land anywhere, even on fields of grass and mountainsides.
    — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
  • Sometimes lightning hits the mountainside and splits or burns a tree.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even to reach them, aid workers walked for hours on perilous roads on steep mountainsides.
    — NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Since the first Viking slid down a mountainside on his shield, that's been the appeal.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • At one point the trail, no wider than a horse’s hoof and notched into the mountainside, crossed a steep rock slide.
    — Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025
  • Just look at that flock of sheep (above) in the unspoiled mountainside near Shaqlawa.
    — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In one of the clips, a wall of water, mud and debris could be seen rolling down the mountainside.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Route 6 snakes up the mountainside from the city of Toyoma on the coast.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The pictures were of a high school classmate–magic-hour shots in a mountainside field.
    — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Fraga often hikes up mountainsides and drives on backroads to find it.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
  • On-the-ground footage shared on social media also showed the mountainside lit up in flames.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Fire officials were called to the scene to retrieve her body from the side of the steep mountainside.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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