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Sentence Examples Our camp was on the eastern slope of a ridge thickly overgrown with high grass and Spanish bayonets. That this road was atop a ridge equally suggests its origin at a time when lower ground, to the east, was marshy and impassable. Massive airstrikes target a ridge early today, as coalition troops try to dislodge Iraqi forces. It is a ridge in the Serra do Divisor, which rises abruptly above a vast, level plain cloaked in tall forest. On the symphyseal side, the concavity abuts a ridge that borders the straight symphyseal surface of the plate. We always planted a ridge of turnips and a ridge of cabbage to keep us supplied with vegetables. This has been a dream for the past 28 years since I saw my first wind harp on a ridge in Vermont. The ridge push force results from newly formed sea floor at a ridge pushing aside the adjacent plates. Situated on a ridge above Maneybhanjang, clouds from the northwest are ever present, as is the cold and biting wind. With a sense of drama and spectacle, the Incas often built on the crown of a ridge. Take the track forking sharply left and follow this boggy walled route gradually uphill along a ridge for a further one and a half miles. The crista prootica is a ridge or ledge of the prootic which runs antero-posteriorly along the side of the braincase above the otic capsule. Fifteen rooms in seven simple stone cottages, most with decks overlooking tranquil Muskmelon Bay, are strung along a ridge. At sunset, tribal forces claimed to have captured a ridge on the Milawa valley adjacent to the Tora Bora valley. There's a groove in the head that must correspond with a ridge in one side of the track to ensure proper polarity. Crunching over the top of a ridge, we drop into a large bowl where rivulets of water gather to form a torrent that plunges into a crevasse. After slugging through deadfall for two hours I reached a ridge overlooking the trail. Ponderosa pine spire a ridge lush in some of the best native bunch grass habitat I have ever seen. She parked up on a ridge a mile from Cail, and through binoculars, scanned the dead soil and red heat. This route led away from the lake through bracken and heather, over a ridge between two hills. Show More Sentences During the Early Devonian two realms were separated by a ridge extending through the centre of the continent. Hoe drills, especially those with wider row spacing, can plant seed deeper because they can build a ridge and plant in the furrow. A week of sunshine and showers followed as a ridge of high pressure dominated. It's sat on the little finger of my left hand for 23 years until it's worn a ridge into the skin. Just short of the summit of the bealach climb the broken and craggy slopes west to a ridge high above the Garbh Coire of Ben Alder. He walked under the trees, ducking under some particularly saggy branches, until he came to a ridge. The team confirms that the slide was the result of a snow avalanche from a ridge top, which triggered both a flood and debris flow. Up on a ridge to the right of us, someone has been felling an oak tree all day. At about nine o'clock, the first vehicle topped a ridge, hit a patch of soft sand and stuck fast. It runs along something of a ridge so we could see for miles to villages betrayed by church towers and spires. Just above the treeline we found our real estate, a small level dish on a ridge featuring million dollar views. Occasionally found in some knees, it is a ridge or fold of extraneous soft tissue with no known biomechanical function. It is constructed to resemble an ancient burial mound, called a tumulus, sitting atop a ridge and overlooking the Magaliesberg mountains. You get the odd hairy moment when coming over a ridge and round a corner at the same time as the car kicks down a gear and opens the throttle to maintain its speed. Our family was camped on a ridge in the lower end of the campground when water, trees, mud, and rocks destroyed half of our tent and rendered our station wagon unmovable. The trunk tergites have a pair of slightly curved longitudinal paramedian sutures, and more posterior tergites are marginate with a ridge along the lateral margin. Rather than retreat the way I've come, I decide to continue east along a ridge to another Munro, eventually glissading down a scree gully to the valley bottom. Having bare feet also made it easier to grip when following a ridge and, since there was not the faintest trace of vegetation anywhere, there was no danger from thorns. Conceived as a part of the landscape, the monumental concrete megastructure designed by John Andrews was sited on the crown of a ridge overlooking the valley. Planners are concerned about the proposed new building to house pregnant sows which would have a floorspace of 400 square metres and a ridge height of eight metres. Show More Sentences High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating. That means sometimes playing a more lofted club, to get over a ridge, or on double-breakers, flying the ball far enough to eliminate the first break. I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests. The 1950s former Swiss air force trainer jet had flown four times over the crowd before trying to turn when it corkscrewed and plummeted into a ridge. Sometimes a cliff peters out at the end of a ridge, with tea tables or other types of rock columns remaining. The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. Cefn Bryn, a ridge of high land, forms the backbone of the Gower Peninsula. This creates a swale and space for snow accumulation in the winter, which in turn creates a ridge. Atlanta sits atop a ridge south of the Chattahoochee River, which is part of the ACF River Basin. The round of the Taf Fechan skyline forms a ridge walk commonly known as the Beacons Horseshoe. From Corn Du, a ridge with an inner escarpment descends south towards Merthyr Tydfil. A medial moraine is a ridge of moraine that runs down the center of a valley floor. As the glacier melts or retreats, the debris is deposited and a ridge down the middle of the valley floor is created. During the next 6 minutes the tsunami wave trough builds into a ridge, and during this time the sea is filled in and destruction occurs on land. During the next 6 minutes, the tsunami wave changes from a ridge to a trough, causing flood waters to drain and drawback to occur again. The latter is a metal framework tower with a black triangular day mark, situated on a ridge on the south edge of Lindisfarne. This is done to exploit the topographic acceleration as the wind accelerates over a ridge. As the seafloor spreading axis moves along the margin, thermal uplift produces a ridge. The city of Exeter was established on the eastern bank of the River Exe on a ridge of land backed by a steep hill. Most islands have ridges ranging from 30 to 45 m, though Cat Island has a ridge 60 m in height. Show More Sentences They can intersect at various angles, especially under the nose of a ridge, and create massive blocks or wedges of roof prone to failure. The contour mining method consists of removing overburden from the seam in a pattern following the contours along a ridge or around the hillside. The most southerly sector consists of a ridge running broadly north east to south west. The principal feature of these fells is a ridge running from the Vale of Lorton in the west to Bassenthwaite Lake in the east. Between the two is Watson's Dodd, a ridge top with considerably less prominence. For example, an 8,000 m drop over a 4,250 m span can be found at a ridge sitting inside the Kermadec Trench. A fifth line of high ground, less a ridge than a salient in the breast of the fell, runs due west to Seat Sandal across Grisedale Hause. From the top of the pass a complex series of grassy knolls firms up into a ridge bearing south westward. The headwaters of the Esk and Duddon are separated by a ridge falling south west from the summit of Crinkle Crags. A spur is a lateral ridge or tongue of land descending from a hill, mountain or main crest of a ridge. The two dales are separated by a ridge including Great Shunner Fell, and joined by the road over Buttertubs Pass. We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us. A headman of a village, called a Chaudhary or a Malik, would wear a Turra or a ridge on his turban. On this particular hunt I had my stand hung to let me watch a mountain laurel thicket on a ridge, as described above. Three days later, Lear finally ventured into the big whitetail's known haunt and staked out a spot for his Summit climber in a shagbark hickory on the back side of a ridge. Offshore from Blyth is the Trink, a ridge of limestone ridge covered by gravel, cobbles and boulders and which supports rare species such as the sea spider. It occupies a position in the very south of the main range of fells, alongside and just to the north of Parlick, to which it is joined by a ridge. The trail then passes Dodd Fell Hill and follows a ridge between Widdale and Sleddale, before descending into Wensleydale at Gayle and the adjoining town of Hawes. In geology the term is more specifically applied to a ridge where a harder sedimentary rock overlies a softer layer, the whole being tilted somewhat from the horizontal. The highest part of the fell is a ridge running south from Mickledore as far as Slight Side, which is counted as a separate fell by most guidebooks. Show More Sentences Grisedale Hause can also be reached as a ridge walk from Seat Sandal, or by cutting across the outlet of Grisedale Tarn from Dollywaggon Pike and the Helvellyns. The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England. In areas with rolling or steep terrain with a coal seam occurring near the top of a ridge or hill, the entire top is removed in a series of parallel cuts. The existence of such a ridge was confirmed by sonar in 1925 and was found to extend around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean by the German Meteor expedition. If the strip was in the same place each year, the soil built up into a ridge, creating the ridge and furrow topography still seen in some ancient fields. They take the form of a ridge running between Derwent Water in the west and Thirlmere in the east, from Keswick in the north to Langdale Pikes in the south. Examples from Classical Literature Before there was time to think or dream, I landed very beautifully upon a ridge of run-up snow in a quiet corner. The catchment basin is surrounded by a ridge or watershed line, continuous except at the point where the river finds an outlet. His hair was cut short, with the exception of a ridge on the top which ran stem to stern, like a cockscomb. Except when cresting a ridge, the traveller swelters under an unbroken roof of impenetrable foliage. Livy says that the city was named longa because it extended along a ridge of the Alban hills. This precaution will prevent the formation of a ridge of bubbles around the top of the timbale case. To the north lay the Mountain State of Vermont, and to the south a ridge of bold well-wooded heights. The hill was the highest point of a ridge that looked down into the valleys of the Vardar and of Bodjinia. The presence of old splits is often indicated by a ridge of callous, the result of the cambium's effort to occlude the wound. The enemy had already moved their artillery across the ailette to a ridge north of the river. This wider tube has a ridge running along its dorsal side, the typhlosole. The thermite was piled generously in a ridge all the way around. From my perch I could see the sullen heavy walls of a ridge. The femur frequently has a ridge representing the third trochanter. At one place it ran along the crest of a ridge that was no more than a knife-edge. He gazed across the shimmering desert to a ridge of scrubby hills. Beyond the wood, which stood on a ridge, there was a stretch of grassland. The beach was of dull-grey sand, and sloped steeply up to a ridge, perhaps sixty or seventy feet above the sea-level, and irregularly set with trees and undergrowth. A security guard at the paper, Adnan Hadjimahmutovic, recalls first seeing a Serb tank, just 150 metres away on a ridge, turn its barrel on the building. Find more words! 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