buttes
- plural of butte.
Example Sentences
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She wants the public to be able to appreciate the peace and beauty of the buttes, but echoed landowners’ concerns about the delicate ecosystem and centuries-old Native American artifacts that remain largely untouched.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Most of the land in the buttes is held by a small number of legacy families who primarily use the fields for grazing cattle and sheep.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Across 15,000 square miles, between Spokane, Quincy and Walla Walla, the landscape is teeming with desolate cliffs, buttes and canyons.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The school looks upon red mesas, buttes and Ponderosa forests.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
But humans being what they are, and I being human, I turned off the highway on a shaley road and headed in among the buttes, but with a shyness as though I crashed a party.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
