Sentence examples for gentle foothills from inspiring English sources
From the heat and stark, volcanic cliffs of Cabo de Gata, through the plastic polybagged fields and greasy-spoon country of Almeria, to the gentle foothills and cleaner, thinner air of Las Alpujarras.
The damp, shining road curved over the gentle foothills, and the trees alongside seemed to become greener and lusher in the growing light, and before long a car passed him going the other direction; and, a little farther down the road, he did in fact come upon a house that he recognized.
Auburn is where the suburbs of Sacramento give out and the gentle foothills start the long, steep climb up the Sierra Nevada.
Once past Winston-Salem, the traffic thinned, and the flat plain turned into gentle rolling foothills.
Mountains, upland lakes and steep-sided glacial valleys make up the terrain of the initial northern sections of the Way before giving way to gentler rolling foothills in the latter southern sections.
The area — deceptively gentle farmland in the foothills of the Tindfjalla glacier, not much more than an hour east of the capital — was called Fljótshlíð.
The Family Farm Vineyard, on a gentle slope in the foothills, yielded a wine with great finesse, an unusual floral quality and lovely mineral flavors.
The second one is testified by gentle slopes with wide glacis at the foothills, locally covered by coarse waste deposits.
Starting about 20 miles north of Winston-Salem, the road makes a gentle, rolling ascent westward from the Piedmont Plateau into the Blue Ridge foothills.
The gentle hills of Soave, rising slowly from the plain of the Adige River to the foothills of the Dolomites, hardly look like the Italian volcanoes of the imagination — funnel-shaped peaks like Vesuvius or Etna.
Climb the bluffs where two rivers, three states and the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains meet, and you'll see the roiling, white-capped waters and gentle, mist-laden peaks that Thomas Jefferson described in 1783 as "perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature".
