Example Sentences

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Rod McLachlan is a mountainously depressive Gordon Brown.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2015

And from a bank’s perspective, the typical freshman is not a particularly enticing loan candidate unless the bank can charge mountainously high interest rates or get the government to back the debt.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2014

For years he and his wife and three children lived in a handsome villa in Italy, heavily staffed and mountainously supplied with the good things of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lies mountainously in the garden of his house in Coyoacan, his head pillowed on the stony side of an eroded pre-Columbian head.

From Time Magazine Archive

The raging torrents poured into that yawning cavern, filled it, and piled mountainously above it; receding and piling up, again and again, causing tidal waves which swept a full half of Nevia's mighty, watery globe.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)