Sentence examples for mountaintop city from inspiring English sources

Especially impressive are the silver, gold and crystal treasures exhumed from Monte Alban, the ancient mountaintop city where Oaxacan culture began.

The cover, which I have always preferred to its American counterpart, shows a cloaked figure (presumably Genly Ai) standing in a winter nightscape with coral-like flora in the foreground and the lights of a mountaintop city behind him.

The site was abandoned around 800, and centuries later, the Mixtec people repopulated the mountaintop city overlooking the Oaxaca Valley.

An elevated view of about half of Machu Picchu, the lost mountaintop city of the Inca in the Peruvian Andes.

Almost all said they had lied about where they were going, telling soldiers at checkpoints they were headed to towns controlled by government troops or loyal to Colonel Qaddafi, rather than to the rebellious mountaintop cities.

IT'S summertime, and the sound of shutter clicks can be heard from seashore to mountaintop to city center.

Of this PFLP hijacking and those that followed at Dawson's field, Kumamoto writes: "The PFLP hijackers had seized no armies, mountaintops, or cities.

On the weekend, we drove to the battered old Sky City mountaintop I recalled from my childhood.

Almost all have now fled, with the exception of up to 40,000 Yezidis marooned on a mountaintop near the city of Sinjar that had been home to the sect for several thousand years.

When you pick up one of these phones or dial the Telemegaphone's phone number (which will be published on August 2nd), the apparatus shown above starts blinking and your voice is blasted from a high mountaintop overlooking the city.

"We are here to proclaim from the highest mountaintop that the City of New Orleans, in all of its agony and in all of its joy, can transform itself from a city of violence into a city of peace," the mayor said.