Example Sentences

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Snow-capped mountains are pretty typical in California — just not the peaks that got dusted this week.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2019

Snow-capped peaks dot the horizon, and the sun sets behind them — the sky turns the color of pink lemonade, then blueberries.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017

Snow-capped mountains fringe the sky to the west.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snow-capped peaks, bottomless precipices, huge masses of boulders that seem ready to crush the train surround you on every side, and now and then are directly above or beneath you.

From Under the Andes by Stout, Rex

Snow-capped mountains rise out of the sea, barren and gray just below the snow, and green with perpetual verdure for a thousand feet above the water.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.