Sentence examples for rugged foothills from inspiring English sources

At least they have the rugged foothills as an ally.

ELLSINORE, Mo. — Growing up in the rugged foothills of the Ozarks, Tommy Adams always dreamed of carrying a badge.

The eastern two-thirds of the country is composed of the rugged foothills of the Rhätikon Mountains, part of the central Alps.

The question of pace, and who determines it, had brought us to the rugged foothills of the Pyrenees in the first place.

-- Here on the third floor of a gleaming office building overlooking a golf course in the rugged foothills north of San Diego, Darrell Issa, the entrepreneur, oversees the hub of a growing financial empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

DENVER (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire broke out in rugged foothills and quickly spread across more than five square miles on Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and leading to the evacuation of a thousand others.

New fighting was reported Tuesday afternoon near Galashki, a small village in Ingushetia, where at least some of the militants appeared to be making their way through the rugged Caucasus foothills southeast of Nazran toward Chechnya.

Thirty oil companies, nine of them new to Colombia, have signed exploration contracts for nearly 50 oil fields, ranging from an offshore block in the Caribbean to potentially lucrative patches in the country's rugged Andean foothills, like this site in the Gualiva Valley.

Trackers hunted Tuesday for the mountain lion they say stalked and killed a jogger in the rugged Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Sacramento.

Spokane lies in the Columbia Plateau ecoregion on the eastern edge of the basaltic Channeled Scablands steppe, a plain that then eventually rises sharply to the east towards the rugged, timbered Rocky Mountain foothills, the Selkirk Mountains.

Towards the east, topography is less rugged, with rolling foothills that eventually level to flat prairie and agricultural lands.