Example Sentences

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Plateaus of brass appearing on a sonic horizon like a strip of dry land.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

Microplastic rains down from the Antarctic to the Arctic, from Tibetan Plateaus to the peaks of the Pyrenees.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

I wish I was back on the Hunger Plateaus, And seeking the lost caribou; I wish I was up where the Coppermine flows To the kick of my little canoe.

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

To the south of Monte San Michele and north and east of Monfalcone there stretched the Doberdo and Carso Plateaus.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

Plateaus and valleys of rich, gravelly soil lie within these stately ranges.

From Canada by Bourinot, John George, Sir