Sentence examples for tallest active from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Jorge Sanz/Demotix/Corbis 2.30pm GMT Mount Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano, spews lava during an eruption near the Sicilian town of Catania.

From Cotopaxi, the tallest active volcano in the world, to the Galapagos Islands, to the West Side of New York, it is a great day for Ecua-dor.

Mount Etna is the tallest active volcano in Europe, measuring at 3329m high and has been exploding for an estimated 2.5 million years.

The W.N.B.A.'s tallest player ever, Dydek was often described during her 10 full seasons in the league as the tallest active female basketball player in the world.

Pitches from £7pp, reservations preferred, rosecottageecuador.com 6 Tambopaxi, Cotopaxi national park There can be few more dramatic places to camp than beneath one of the world's tallest active volcanoes.

Major volcanoes of the world region elevation* first recorded eruption comments feet metres Mediterranean Etna, Sicily, Italy 10,991 3,350 1500 BC The tallest active volcano in Europe, Etna has had recorded eruptions for millennia, including a huge blast in 1669 that left 20,000 people dead.

Compare to EBR-II, the proposed core has larger pins, a taller active core, and thick reflector instead of depleted uranium breeding blankets.

The 10,000 foot-tall active Volcano towers above the village of Chã das Caldeiras, an eclectic assortment of vineyards filled with plump purple grapes and houses without electricity.

U.C.L.A. 20-111), seightheinhthein the West Regional, had little trouble protecting the lead as ninth-seeded Mississippi 20-111) shot poorly over the taller, more active U.C.L.A. defense.

One account of him, written in the late 1860s, described Hickok as "six feet tall, lithe, active, sinewy, [a] daring rider, [a] dead shot with pistol and rifle, [with] long locks, fine features and mustache, buckskin leggings, red shirt, broad-brim hat, twin pistols in belt, rifle in hand".

Barbara Jarvis was a tall, slender, physically active, health-conscious and very healthy woman living on Kauai, Hawaii's "garden island".