mountainside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountainside
Example Sentences
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Liu Shaoyong was the chairman of China Eastern Airlines when one of its planes mysteriously plunged into a mountainside in southern China in March 2022, killing 132 people on board.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Italy-based Webuild said Wednesday that Neom canceled its contract to build a $5 billion dam, which was meant to make a mountainside lake and was in the midst of construction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Two other hikers were then spotted on the mountainside by a helicopter sent to rescue Casanova, but crews were unable to conduct the operation due to high winds, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
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
For, pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance and who had waited so very impatiently.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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