mountainside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountainside
Example Sentences
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"It is hard to train in Kyrgyzstan as we don't have the right conditions and financing," the 19-year-old told AFP from the mountainside in the Ala-Archa National Park, just south of the capital Bishkek.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
The U.S. delegation is expected to take over a late-19th-century church turned convening space perched in the center of a frosty mountainside promenade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Investigators say Casanova was not hiking with the pair; however, rescue efforts launched Monday morning for the teen led the helicopter crew to the other two hikers on the mountainside.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026
The newly studied fossil deposit on Spitsbergen is so concentrated that it forms a visible bonebed eroding out of the mountainside.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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