Mount Rainier

[ rey-neer, ruh-, rey-neer ]

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How to use Mount Rainier in a sentence

  • Mount Rainier is noted in Farnham's Travels, our volume xxix, p. 33, note 30.

  • Many other delightful excursions are open to one who pitches his tent in the alpine meadows on the south side of Mount Rainier.

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  • That Mount Rainier should still retain so much of its internal heat is not surprising in view of the recency of its eruptions.

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  • Within the belt the annual addition of snow to the ice fields is greater than anywhere else on Mount Rainier.

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  • It lies in lava and other volcanic rocks, to be sure, but these are merely spreading layers of the cone of Mount Rainier.

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Cultural definitions for Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier

[ (ray-neer, ruh-neer) ]


Volcanic peak (see volcano) in southwestern Washington.

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