mountain chain
noun
mountain chains
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pluralof mountain chain.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The 469-mile roadway passes through six mountain chains in the Appalachians in Virginia and North Carolina.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
If these plates are on the move, they might crash into each other and crumple upward to form mountain chains as tall as the Himalayas, Unterborn says.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2017
"If we could pull the plug on the oceans it would be clear to everyone we have mountain chains and a big high-standing continent above the ocean crust."
From Reuters ● Feb. 18, 2017
The resulting volcanoes frequently appear as curved mountain chains, volcanic arcs, due to the curvature of the earth.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The men discovered that the foaming white-water rapids ran through a deep gorge between steep, rock-strewn mountain chains.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
