Sentence examples for rugged mountainside from inspiring English sources

It is like watching a shadow creep across a rugged mountainside.

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO and Afghan forces pushed back hundreds of Taliban fighters from a district center in northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, sending them fleeing into the rugged mountainside just hours after the fighters had seized control over a portion of that same area, Afghan officials said.

Whether you are religious or not, this stone monastary built into the rugged mountainside makes for a stunning scene.

The land he's in the process of buying is a rugged mountainside, with the ruins of a few old stone farm buildings mostly reclaimed by vegetation.

The rugged mountainsides rise placidly here rather than dramatically, yellow-streaked grey crags showing through patches in the rich green carpet that cloaks them.

Surrounded by the rugged mountainsides and overgrown by brush, the burned-out and crumbling buildings are what remain of the Murphy Ranch, where during the late 1930s a small group hoping to establish a Nazi utopia built an elaborate infrastructure that included a 395,000-gallon concrete water tank, a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel tank and a power station.

By the 1990s swathes of Turkey's rugged Kurdish mountainside had fallen under guerrilla control.

— A day after discovering the wreckage of the plane flown by the millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett when he disappeared 13 months ago, investigators said Thursday that they had found remains at the crash site, a rugged and lonely mountainside in the Sierra Nevada of east-central California.

This precious stretch of the Sierra Nevada range straddles Nevada and California, and travelers can experience a rugged backcountry adventure or modern mountainside luxury.

Driving last October on Scenic State Highway 12 in southern Utah -- which winds for 120 miles through rugged deserts, multicolored cliffs and mountainsides blanketed with flame-yellow aspens -- I was one unhappy camper.

Missed Opportunity: As we hurtled south from Rome on Italo, I was mesmerized by the rugged landscape and the hill towns mortised into the mountainsides.