mountainside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountainside
Example Sentences
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Magic gave him a mischievous grin before bouncing up the mountainside.
From Literature
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I followed Red down the mountainside and through The Village.
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There is no such thing as zero risk, and it may be advisable to keep away from pistes beneath mountainsides covered with powdery-looking snow.
From BBC
The blaze ignited under Edison’s towering transmission lines that run down the mountainside in Eaton Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times
Firearms are tested in tunnels that were dug as deep as 500 feet into the mountainside during World War II to protect production from British and American bombing raids.
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