Sentence examples for sheer mountain from inspiring English sources
Waterfalls tumble from the sheer mountain faces.
The team will try to drive the 48 miles west through sheer mountain passes, which they fear may be blocked.
More important than ripping a hole in the front gate, the attack punctured a belief that the war existed only somewhere else, far from these sheer mountain valleys.
Already set in the West, Raoul Walsh's late gangster picture "High Sierra" (1941) stars Humphrey Bogart as a recently released career criminal recruited for one last job, ending with a doomed retreat up a sheer mountain face.
As well as the sheer mountain drops and stunning views, you should spot some rare flowers, and will shake your head in wonder at the engineering feats once employed to carry slate down the mountain (aided by a rickety railway and packhorses).
Goethe, or his coachman, had the good taste to pick a route that twists through one of the prettiest corners of Bavaria, a rural landscape of onion-dome churches and undulating fields of hay set against a backdrop of sheer mountain faces; the limestone precipices drop to the edges of two lovely lakes, the Kochelsee and Walchensee, which are a favorite of German holidaymakers.
This aircraft was seen by eye-witnesses following the doomed airliner as it skimmed the Alpine ridges before crashing into a sheer mountain-side.
You grasp for adjectives to describe what you're witnessing in Antarctica as sheer mountains suddenly come into view, plunging straight into the sea.
(Hauke on his white horse, gazing at the sea: "Where was the other shore? He stood there face to face with sheer mountains of water").
Horse riding is offered to guests (beginners to advanced) for around £39 for a 90-minute tour and, set among the mossy northern plains and sheer mountains, is a wonderful experience.
One of Europe's largest countries, Germany encompasses a wide variety of landscapes: the tall, sheer mountains of the south; the sandy, rolling plains of the north; the forested hills of the urbanized west; and the plains of the agricultural east.
