How to Use ridgetop in a Sentence

ridgetop

noun
  • At one point, taking it all in on a ridgetop, this huge herd of reindeer came beneath my feet.
    — Outside Online, 7 June 2018
  • Winds along ridgetops are predicted to gust 20 mph out of the northeast.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.
    — Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
  • To reach that ridgetop, the fire had traveled 13 miles southeast in 30 hours.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
  • That’s why stalking hogs after spotting them from a distant road or ridgetop is a common method.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • From this point on, our machete-wielding porters whack a shoulder-wide path straight up the fall line toward the ridgetop.
    — Peter Frick-Wright, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2019
  • The Coastal fire broke out on a cool but gusty day and spread rapidly, cresting up a canyon before burning huge ridgetop homes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Glennallen troopers responded by plane and landed on a nearby ridgetop.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • A couple miles away, Wil Berndt, 68, watched from a ridgetop as flames raced up the canyon toward his home.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The ridgetop offered several great picnic areas with vast views across the surrounding plains.
    — Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2022
  • Tolby said Thursday should bring the heaviest snow with high winds and ridgetop gusts that could reach up to 100 mph.
    — Sophie Haigney, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The other photograph shows a high ridgetop overlooking a sweeping valley.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The cemetery is located on a ridgetop north of Aero Parkway in Florence.
    — Nancy Daly, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • From Vatia village, climb up switchbacks to a ridgetop through tropical rainforest that’s home to fruit bats.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The lodge launched Siwash Star Camp, two canvas tents set on a ridgetop platform deck with views of the lake and mountains.
    — Sara Clemence, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Black bears were so attracted to the heavy concentration of ridgetop chinquapins that locals used the area for trapping.
    — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
  • Easterly ridgetops saw winds averaging around 30 mph and gusting to 60 mph.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The castle is surrounded by contemporary sculpture and looks down on the village and as far as the medieval ridgetop village of Ménerbes, four miles west.
    — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Flames in the canyon bottom create a convection oven, carrying fire uphill and over ridgetops, spewing hot embers a mile or more into other neighborhoods.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • Fearing to continue climbing to the ridgetop during aftershocks that were also significant earthquakes, the women stayed on their platform of ferns and bent-over blades of rye grass.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The Tamarack fire started July 4 when lightning struck a rocky ridgetop in the Mokelumne Wilderness and at first, only a single tree was ablaze.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
  • Residents on Viewside Lane got word to evacuate immediately as flames topped ridgetops directly above their homes.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2017
  • Winds gusting to nearly 20 mph (32 kph) at times drove the fire through dense chaparral on the foothill slopes and along ridgetops, sending up an enormous column of smoke that smeared the sky for miles around.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The builders want to tunnel through a mountain some 700 feet below the level of the trail, which runs along the ridgetop and intertwines with the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    — Robert Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2020
  • This allows lovers of adventure and/or paper maps to choose their mileage by combining segments through wetlands, past waterfalls, over ridgetops, and along the Missouri River.
    — Brian Higgins, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
  • Gusty ridgetop winds are predicted to reach between 45 mph and 65 mph and peak Thursday morning, leading to dangerous and even whiteout conditions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The one-acre property is set on a ridgetop and enjoys unobstructed views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • On Saturday, a heli-skiing tour carrying five passengers and a pilot crashed on an unnamed ridgetop north of the glacier, returning from a day of riding in the Chugach Mountains.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • To help feed their three young children, Molly and Scott Moffat backpacked 120 pounds of food, bought at Costco by a family member, to their isolated ridgetop home.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • After a 20-minute journey from Wanaka, McCaw’s helicopter lands on the pristine glacier, gingerly joining a dozen other choppers in formation on the snowy ridgetop.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2017

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