Rockies

American  

[rok-eez] / ˈrɒk iz /

noun

1. Rocky Mountains.

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Rockies British  

/ ˈrɒkɪz /

plural noun

1. another name for the Rocky Mountains

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Example Sentences

That it’s set on the Western Slope of the Colorado Rockies makes it even more appealing.

From Los Angeles Times

Munich might not be quite as close to the Alps as Denver is to the Rockies, but you can still easily fit the city’s beer gardens and some solid ski runs into the same weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal

Multiple US states declared states of emergency as meteorologists said the storm would soon begin marching across much of the continental US, covering a wide swath of the country's middle including the Rockies and Plains.

From Barron's

Heavy snow is predicted through the Southern Rockies and Plains, into the Mid-Atlantic and reaching the Northeast.

From BBC

But in the powerless dusk, as the sun slipped behind the Rockies, the cottage we had rented began to light up with candles—short, tall, big, small, whatever we could find.

From The Wall Street Journal

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