Sentence examples for of the foothills from inspiring English sources

They were at the edge of a low summit, one of the foothills of the Himalayas.

He lived 20 minutes south, in Newman, another little town at the base of the foothills.

The 1.4-mile Trading Post Loop Trail gives a quick and scenic panorama of the foothills.

Sediments of Devonian (359 to 419 million years old) to Cretaceous age form the southern section of the foothills.

One photograph taken by the Opportunity looks like a shot of the foothills in the Austrian Alps.

In the north the intensive cultivation of fertile soils gives way to swidden (slash-and-burn) cultivation of taro and yams in the forests of the foothills.

Most of the houses in this part of the foothills are from the 1940s and 1950s, built on three- and four-acre lots.

The less fertile gray-wooded soils known as luvisols underlie the extensive mixed and coniferous forests of the foothills and the north.

3. Cupertino May 1889: View of the foothills from the porch roof of Captain Joseph C Merithew's ranch, now De Anza College, looking south-west over McClellan Road.

Suki Molina, vice president of the Foothills Conservation Advisory Committee, which joined with the City of Boise in spending $10 million to preserve open space, said her group noticed a change in the way local landowners were approaching the committee early this year.

The event helps raise funds in support of the YMCA of the Foothills Chaplain Services Programm.