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    Use "ridgeline" in a sentence

    ridgeline example sentences

    ridgeline


    1. And after each evening she was faithfully out at the ridgeline, coaxing the paint pony ever closer with tempting delights


    2. She was busy helping the farms along the ridgeline in the reaping of their crops, and the farmers spoke of her in glowing terms


    3. One charged at her, its curling tail held high above the ridgeline of its back


    4. They ranged over the high ridgeline, where the


    5. dropped just below the ridgeline, where I began again to hobble


    6. Frank looked up and saw that they were coming to a large open area at the top of a ridgeline


    7. We emerged into a small courtyard concealed on three sides by a high wall guarded by the Earl’s soldiers who walked the ridgeline and maintained a stout bailey gate which was open


    8. To counter that possibility, Colonel Edson’s Raider and Para Battalion has been digging in and preparing defensive positions along the ridgeline to the South of this command post


    9. The jungle however was soon replaced by a mostly denuded ridgeline, allowing for a faster pace


    10. After about forty minutes of hurried walking, the column approached a knoll on top of the ridgeline that appeared to be the center of a savage firefight

    11. They were following a relatively flat ridgeline that was naked of nearly all vegetation on an average width of maybe sixty meters at most


    12. The ridgeline snaked on in a generally southward direction, rising gently towards the low knoll


    13. He thus started crawling towards the ridgeline of the knoll on all fours, followed by Ingrid and her close to one hundred women loaded with guns and ammunition


    14. The woman then took a prone position along the ridgeline and pointed her M2 carbine


    15. Ingrid then pointed another ridgeline, this one to the southwest of the town and rising to more than 200 meters above the valley floor


    16. With Marguerite Higgins getting back in the helicopter with her, Ingrid soon flew out in the UH-1, to then head towards the ridgeline to the Northwest


    17. Nearly 160 women were working and digging furiously around the reporter, building trenches and firing bunkers for three mutually supporting platoon positions along the ridgeline of their hilltop


    18. As the helicopter now flew towards a ridgeline to the West, their pilot shouted again


    19. With a corporal holding a flashlight to illuminate a photo map of the main islet of Uotsuri-Shima, he pointed at the long ridgeline running west to east along the top of the promontory occupying most of the four kilometer square island


    20. ‘’But, General, it will be very difficult to find space to land on top of that ridgeline, especially at night

    21. She had a last, emotional thought about her young children in 1948 ‘B’ Jerusalem as her helicopter veered hard left to line up on the ridgeline that dominated the whole of Uotsuri-Shima


    22. With its rear rotor broken and its engines on fire from the impact of the portable anti-aircraft missile, the CH-47J went down at once in a mad spiral and, barely missing the edge of the ridgeline, fell down nearly 200 meters before hitting the rocky slopes and exploding in a huge fireball, instantly killing its five crewmembers and 32 paratroopers


    23. That still left the big helicopter hideously vulnerable to enemy fire as it hovered for nearly a minute just above the ridgeline while the 32 paratroopers, including Brigadier General Shimori, slid down


    24. Shimori gave a quick nod of approval to Nancy before pointing the nearby summit along the ridgeline to his soldiers


    25. The slope of the ridgeline was fairly steep and the rough, rocky ground made the walk treacherous but, thankfully, they did not encounter active resistance on the way to the tip of the island


    26. Nancy then left Shimori and walked to the northwest down the gentle, forested slope of the ridgeline until she got to a point where the down slope started becoming much steeper


    27. The general’s divisional political officer then joined him in the open trench on the ridgeline of the hill he was using to observe the French outpost


    28. ‘’We don’t know where all the Nippo[4] are, miss, but they positioned their machineguns and mortars along the ridgeline of those hills to the South


    29. ‘’Sir, one of our gunships flying overhead has just sighted a large troop concentration forming at the foot of the ridgeline facing us


    30. The ridgeline had always served as his guide home

    31. another up there on the ridgeline trackin" deer an" such


    32. Dal had just finished a long climb to crest a high ridgeline when the keening wail reached her ears, and a white fury flashed in her heart


    33. Diego’s horse skittered between sparse foliage and blazed their trail along a windswept ridgeline


    34. I hiked high on a ridgeline, coming to short icy patches of snow that I crossed with the help of my ski pole


    35. The views opened up again as I walked along a ridgeline of volcanic rocks and boulders, glimpsing lakes occasionally below the trail and the land that spread beyond


    36. Eight of us boiled out of the woods into the clearing at the ridgeline


    37. Range to the wall is just over six hundred meters, and the wind tends to get disrupted by the ridgeline to the south


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    Synonyms for "ridgeline"

    ridge ridgeline

    "ridgeline" definitions

    a long narrow range of hills