Sentence examples for rugged slopes from inspiring English sources
The California Air National Guard is helping the more than 3,500 firefighters on the ground with air patrols and drops of fire retardant on the rugged slopes.
Carved from limestone by glaciers, rugged slopes are softened by flower-filled plateaux, and the park is home to diverse wildlife, from wildcats to porcupine.
This settlement's break with timeless isolation came in 1998, when a mysterious adventurer from Hong Kong drifted through the area, making his way up the rugged slopes that overlook Danba and discovering this village and a remarkable local family.
But tucked into Ohio's southeast corner, near where it touches West Virginia and Kentucky, lies a protected pocket the glaciers never bullied, a densely wooded but thinly populated region of rugged slopes and cool hollows, of spring-fed creeks and cascading waterfalls, known as the Hocking Hills.
Biologically inspired by the armadillo and the golden-wheel spider, the TRREx has two modes of locomotion: it can traverse on six wheels like a conventional rover on benign terrain, but can transform into a sphere when necessary to negotiate steep rugged slopes.
Many of the Yazidi took tenuous refuge on the rugged slopes of Mt. Sinjar, their plight focusing global attention on the extremist threat.
As we descended the rugged slope toward Muir Beach, we, along with the girls, indulged in a collective fantasy that we were slipping down the water slide into the Fairmont Kea Lani Maui pool.
Hung from a lone eucalyptus tree atop a steep and rugged slope in Glen Park, the neighbourhood swing provides a breathtaking view of the skyline at night: from the sheer adrenaline rush of the ground dropping away and the beauty of the twinkling Bay bridge, illuminated by Leo Villareal's Bay Lights sculpture.
The whole area is one steep, rugged slope running down to the Mediterranean, good terrain for defenders.
Four kinds of adaptive landscape were used: smooth single-peak, dynamic two-peak, multiple-peak, and rugged-slope.
The rugged-slope landscapes (see Figure 4) are created by adding a uniform random noise signal (amplitude 0.2) to a smooth linear gradient from (0, δ min ) to (1, δ max ), then smoothing the result using a moving-average window of width span.
