mountaintop
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mountaintop
Example Sentences
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Each day thousands of visitors pile into the area to hike through pristine jungle to white-sand beaches or to Colombia's mountaintop Lost City, which predates Peru's Machu Picchu.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Kid Rock -- whose real name is Robert Ritchie -- posted a video on X over the weekend showing a helicopter hovering near his mountaintop home's swimming pool as he clapped and saluted.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Is this the season the Buffalo Bills finally reach the mountaintop?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026
But when I think of Sisyphus, I think of Philip Rivers: a quarterback who showed up every week, played through injuries and never reached the mountaintop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
And then Kelton points ahead, where the light of dawn crests the distant mountaintop.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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