Sentence examples for vertiginous mountains from inspiring English sources
For the past few years, he has again been piling up vertiginous mountains of debt to buy wireless spectrum in America and parts of Europe.
In its upper reaches, the Bow has all the trappings of a classic alpine trout stream: conifer-lined banks, gravelly riffles, sweeping backdrops of vertiginous mountains and a slightly off-color tint that suggests cover for lunkers lurking just below the surface.
On my first evening here, sitting on the patio of Rijk's Country Hotel, a 15-room Cape Dutch-style inn and restaurant among the vines north of town, I gazed at a blizzard of iceberg roses, a stately row of pines and a group of whitewashed cottages gleaming golden in the sunset, all backed by an arc of vertiginous mountains.
New York State's Hudson Valley offered us everything we needed: vertiginous mountains, cheap land and proximity to NYC should Bikini Kill ever reform and I'd need to see them.
Reggiani found himself running for 10 miles a day up vertiginous mountain roads – great footage, but the ordeal took its toll.
This time of year one's thoughts turn toward family, friends, the best rum to decant into eggnog and — if you are like me, three years out of five — the vertiginous mountain of debt on your credit cards, and the financial reckoning that is breathing into your nostrils, a bit like a wolf.
But his interview was conducted in the same impassive and calculating way that he would destroy the opposition by cycling up impossibly vertiginous French mountains at high speed.
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
Take Yellow Mountain, a vertiginous peak in Anhui province, and a famous beauty spot.
But my guide and I were grappling for synonyms to describe another defining feature: its vertiginous and ever-twisting mountain roads.
Looking into the distance, toward the horizon, I saw verdant hills rise into the continent's most majestic mountains: the stony, vertiginous Alps.
