mountainside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountainside
Example Sentences
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Eyewitnesses told Swiss media that strong winds were buffeting the mountainside when the crash happened.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"It is hard to train in Kyrgyzstan as we don't have the right conditions and financing," the 19-year-old told AFP from the mountainside in the Ala-Archa National Park, just south of the capital Bishkek.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
The newly studied fossil deposit on Spitsbergen is so concentrated that it forms a visible bonebed eroding out of the mountainside.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
Wondrously beautiful he lies on the mountainside, motionless and remote as if in death, but warm and living, and night after night the Moon visits him and covers him with her kisses.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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