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[ US /pɫæˈtoʊ/ ]
[ UK /plˈætə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a relatively flat highland

How To Use plateau In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • The plateau is 1300 meters above sea level and attracts people for its natural beauties, clean weather, and cold spring water. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography.
  • The unforested hills and plateaus of the Dissected Loess Uplands ecoregion are cut by the canyons of Ecoregion 10l and are disjunct. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
  • 'The rate has plateaued, which is what particular people said in the past that it would do without kerbside.' This Is Guernsey
  • As a result, the area of the plateau outside the existing reserves was given the less restrictive tenure of conservation area.
  • Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
  • Some authors aim at a narrative of drama, skipping the plateaux of family life or inner thoughts and move through a series of peaks of achievement.
  • A poet in retirement, 1800-7 During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.
  • The children's standard of reading seems to have reached a plateau .
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