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mountain pass

NOUN
  1. the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
    we got through the pass before it started to snow

How To Use mountain pass In A Sentence

  • For example, plains give way to rising mountain passes with steep cliff faces, and islands peek mysteriously out of lakes and seas.
  • The best hope of that will be in July and August, when the snow will melt, as much as it ever does, and the mountain passes are at their most accessible.
  • The government's weakness and Washington's fear that terrorists might set up camp in the country's mountain passes have kept it there.
  • A mountain pass is a place where the impossible becomes barely possible. Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton
  • Pakistani mountain passes
  • Thus, there are prayer flags, wheels, mani stones and mantras everywhere - on the terraces of housing blocks and at the most desolate of mountain passes.
  • I was hiking in a fairly remote region when a few other hikers told me of a mountain pass leading into a spectacular valley resonant with cascading waters, lush with rolling meadows, dotted with innumerable wild flowers, and protected on all sides by snow-capped peaks.
  • Sable, on a fesse invected or, between three cats a mountain passant guardant argent, a fasces in bend, surmounting a sword in bend sinister proper, between two crescents gules, in the centre chief point a rose of the third. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
  • On a scary mountain road near the peak of Red Mountain Pass we met a motorhome about the size of a city block.
  • So he goes out and zooms around the mountain passes of California for a week, and I wish him a fond farewell, but I don't go on these trips with him.
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