Pyrenees

[ US /ˈpɪɹəiz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a chain of mountains between France and Spain
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How To Use Pyrenees In A Sentence

  • While the others hop into my lap, seeking affection, Chico prefers to curl up to Natty, our shaggy Great Pyrenees mix. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat
  • My fastest-ever speed was 75 mph, freewheeling down a hill in the Pyrenees.
  • Venture inland and there are the foothills of the Pyrenees and the greenness of the fields always surprises UK visitors to northern Spain, who expect to see the arid conditions which predominate further south.
  • The pilot of a microlight aircraft that crashed in the Pyrenees killing him and his girlfriend had had a series of accidents before the fatal crash, it emerged yesterday.
  • Originally brought back from the New World in the 16th century, this white kidney-shaped bean is now grown specifically in the region of Tarbes, a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
  • The idea of the Pyrenees is very charming, and I do not wonder Mrs. Malkin inclines thither, though I remember that when I was there, great as was my admiration for them, I felt rather as I was guilty of infidelity to the Alps all the time and made haste back to the latter, with something of penitence in delight at being once more upon my mountains. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
  • They told me you were ten months old, a Golden Retriever, Great Pyrenees mix and weighed ninety pounds.
  • The tramontana winds around the Pyrenees could easily blow the light aircraft off course, especially during the scattered storms last Friday.
  • They resembled very much some hills of the lower Pyrenees in Spain, only that they were more grassy and less acclivitous, and I named this hill Mount Cole. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
  • Virtuose pastiches on Spanish baroque poetry in frills, and beside them folksong variations of rustic themes, were characteristic elements in the renewal during the 1920s south of the Pyrenees, and they distinguish it undeniably from the manifestos up by the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech
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