plateau - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • undulate: Shallow ridges extend from the basalt escarpment to the south to create an undulating plateau.
  • dissect: The historic landscape area of the Rhondda is located within the dissected plateau of the upland region of Glamorgan, the Blaenau Morgannwg.
  • reach: Day 6 THURSDAY hiking Grand Canyon We reach the high plateau of the Grand Canyon via Route 66.
  • expose: Should the weather on that exposed plateau be cold or wet, then its welcome can become an essential refuge!
  • cross: We've just passed the point where the path splits, the southern fork going off to cross the high plateau to Beinn Macdui.
  • hit: Big Brother, South-East Tip Depth: 40m A wall of soft corals drops to 40m, where you hit a short plateau.

Adjective modifier

  • Tibetan: In June of 2005, I went there to see the birds of the Tibetan plateau... George Wagner reports.
  • tibial: The lateral tibial plateau is marked with an asterisk.
  • Anatolian: The one time home of up to 20,000 people, it's 18 stories descend into the Anatolian plateau 50 kms south of Goreme.
  • upland: Water flows in deep gullies to the upland plateau.
  • grassy: Behind the church, a track climbs steeply through Holloway Rocks before leveling out on the high grassy plateau of Stow Hill.

Noun used with modifier

  • cairngorm: A hundred yards short of the summit and the central Cairngorm plateau came into view.
  • basalt: The surface of the basalt plateau is rolling, with a series of broad ridges aligned northwest to southeast.
  • limestone: Bath is situated in the valley of the River Avon which cuts its way through a limestone plateau.
  • summit: The summit plateau appears to be more water than hill.
  • lat: Grey-crowned Crocias This Vietnamese endemic is classified as Endangered and restricted to the Da Lat plateau.
  • highland: While you ascend to a highland plateau you will notice the changes in nature as you reach higher ground.

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