How to Use mountaintop in a Sentence

mountaintop

noun
  • Clouds hugged the mountaintops, fell around them like a shroud.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Both mountaintop sites need to be clear for the system to work.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Eat in your car, on a boat, on a four-wheeler or a mountaintop.
    — Mara Severin, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 July 2017
  • Mist floats around the mountaintops and rain patters on the lake.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Many of the mountaintops could still see some more snowfall.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Want to take in sweeping views from a mountaintop?
    — Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The next morning, the men hiked up to a grassy mountaintop to watch the sun rise.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Now’s the time to scream your feelings from the mountaintops.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Nor will the bears in the woods, the goats on the mountaintops or the moon people on the moon.
    — Michael Ian Black, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • One man was missing from the mountaintop.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But the Knicks are no longer trying to reach the mountaintop.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • More than a half-million people live just over the mountaintops to the west.
    — idahostatesman, 27 May 2017
  • But for those who make it to the mountaintop, things are already pretty good.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • His goal for his students is to teach them to work hard to get to the mountaintop, both in class and life.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In Paro, hang mountaintop prayer flags and offer a prayer for loved ones.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
  • And so the issue here has simply been to scream it from the mountaintop and tell the world.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
  • In winter, ski out the back door of a mountaintop townhome.
    — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
  • Few men know the rarified air of such a mountaintop.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Hard to beat a good pumpkin muffin on a mountaintop.
    — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In the distance, a brown gash stretched from the mountaintops to the valley floor.
    — Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Their mountaintop home was built like a boat with small rooms on 11 levels.
    — Author: Robin Abcarian, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But the next day, things go awry between the boys, who are talking shop on a mountaintop.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Josh Byrnes has been working on a mountaintop.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The sky’s a cloudless blue, and breezes kiss the mountaintops and hillside trails.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Some are remote — at sea, on mountaintops, out on the tundra — and some are near or in cities.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The 55-year-old has been hired many times in his career to take teams to the mountaintop.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The mountaintop vineyards are often covered in fog or rise just above the fog line.
    — Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The mountaintop lot of this two-bedroom home looks out on the mountains and forest.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The Prince then brought dairy cows to his farm at mountaintop Roc Agel.
    — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • At the highest point of the pass sits a temple fortress carved out of the limestone mountaintop.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022

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