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Sugar Loaf Mountain

noun

  1. a mountain in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro on Guanabara Bay. Height: 390 m (1280 ft) Portuguese namePão de Açúcar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He impressed classmates—one of whom was Lauro Müller—when he climbed Sugar Loaf mountain, scaling it with only a rope.

During a brief visit to Rio de Janeiro, taking in Sugar Loaf mountain, Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, and dutifully drinking cool caipirinhas, my heart was really elsewhere – 1,200km inland to Brasília in the central plateau to be precise.

Sitting at a desk all day, it’s easy to start feeling like a brainless polyp, whereas walking and talking, as we are this morning, while admiring the Great Sugar Loaf mountain rising beyond the city and a Huguenot cemetery formed in 1693, our minds are fizzing.

Sugar Loaf Mountain is about 11 miles away.

Rescue teams in Brazil have retrieved the bodies of six people from coastal rocks at the foot of Rio de Janeiro's famous Sugar Loaf mountain.

From BBC

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