How to Use ridgeline in a Sentence

ridgeline

noun
  • Wind is stronger at the top of a ridgeline than at the bottom.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The top of the ridgeline is very narrow, and steep on both sides in many places.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The pivotal scene happens on a high ridgeline with the best views of the hike.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Bring a cookstove, as no fires are allowed along the ridgeline.
    — Neil Norman, Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Keep your eyes peeled for wild horses grazing along the ridgelines.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Keep your eyes peeled for wild horses grazing along the ridgelines.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Clouds roiled above the ridgelines and produced dry lightning.
    — Shaun McKinnon, azcentral, 24 June 2015
  • The trail can also be completed as a loop by adding the new ridgeline trail.
    — Katie Linsky Shaw, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The sky, a tree line and a ridgeline can form a natural structure.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the clock is deep inside the mountain, below the ridgeline.
    — Dylan Tweney, WIRED, 23 June 2011
  • Setting out on the ridgeline, the view was dizzying on either side.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The experiment was used as the rover drove across a ridgeline.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Give ridgelines a wide berth, as cornices can break a long way back from the visible edge.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 12 May 2024
  • Put lights along the ridgeline of your roof; just be very careful climbing up onto the roof.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The saddle appears as a notch in the long ridgeline just below the summit.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The plans for the ridgeline development are now left to the buyer to build.
    — Sandra Barrera, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
  • Without exposing your hands to the cold, tie up each end to a tree to set up a ridgeline for a tent or tarp.
    — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
  • All 20 of us camped atop the ridgeline and watched dawn break as drums echoed through the valley below.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Keep your eye out for wild horses roaming across the rough ridgelines, and stargaze at night under vast dark skies.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Ahead lay about a mile of ridgeline, with loose and stable rocks all jumbled together.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • One of our cameras was set up on a firebreak below a ridgeline stand of old-growth longleaf pines.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
  • The steps guide residents upward to the main floor, which sits level with the ridgeline.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The orange lights blinking in the far ridgeline, south of them, are not in Israel.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • When the sun dips behind the peaks and paints the ridgelines pink, dinner becomes more akin to theater.
    — Visit Telluride, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
  • As the sky darkened, the jagged ridgeline of the mountains behind us grew sharp and pronounced.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 June 2026
  • The forested ridgeline of Penwood looms high in the distance.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • There is no set route — indeed, a climber’s skill at route-finding is the key to making it from one ridgeline to the next.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Even the back side of the famous towers make an appearance from behind the jagged ridgeline at one point.
    — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • One wrong turn and the hint of a trail can begin to blend with remote ridgelines and rough outcrops cast alike by a setting sun.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • As the sun rose Saturday, a long line of flames was visible along ridgelines in the area.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019

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