How to Use mountaintop in a Sentence

mountaintop

noun
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  • Nor will the bears in the woods, the goats on the mountaintops or the moon people on the moon.
    — Michael Ian Black, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • In the end, the rains stop, and Uta-napishti’s ark, like Noah’s, gets snagged on a mountaintop.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Now’s the time to scream your feelings from the mountaintops.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Clouds hugged the mountaintops, fell around them like a shroud.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And so the issue here has simply been to scream it from the mountaintop and tell the world.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Mist floats around the mountaintops and rain patters on the lake.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The trip concludes with a ten-mile hike to the mountaintop Spicers Peak Lodge.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Heaven is a mountaintop in the Swiss Alps with a bouclé tailleur and a marabou cape.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2019
  • The Prince then brought dairy cows to his farm at mountaintop Roc Agel.
    — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The God that gave the laws on the mountaintop cares deeply about what happens at the mountain’s base.
    — Rabbi Asher Knight - Special To The Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2018
  • Both mountaintop sites need to be clear for the system to work.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • His goal for his students is to teach them to work hard to get to the mountaintop, both in class and life.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The Red Sox are trying to reach the mountaintop, and Bregman knows how to get there.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Grimeland knows that the path to the top of the VC mountaintop will be a difficult one.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Eat in your car, on a boat, on a four-wheeler or a mountaintop.
    — Mara Severin, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 July 2017
  • More than a half-million people live just over the mountaintops to the west.
    — idahostatesman, 27 May 2017
  • At the highest point of the pass sits a temple fortress carved out of the limestone mountaintop.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Two were built in 1905: one to a mountaintop amphitheater, the other down to the beach.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Post-run, take in views of the Chugach Mountains and the Turnagain Arm from the new mountaintop bar.
    — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Getting swept in the first round wasn’t enough to knock the Tampa Bay Lightning off the mountaintop.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In Paro, hang mountaintop prayer flags and offer a prayer for loved ones.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But the next day, things go awry between the boys, who are talking shop on a mountaintop.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Reaching that mountaintop isn’t out of the question for him in Year 2.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The setting sun through the veil of fog enshrouding the mountaintop.
    — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 5 Jan. 2018
  • But Zaz isn’t the only one with his eyes on the Paramount mountaintop, or at least a crag or two.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The largest of them, cast in iron, flank the mountaintop fortress outside of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien in the rural town of Milot.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
  • That, of course, goes for the football team, which is the king of the athletic department, and so close to the mountaintop.
    — Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The mountaintop lot of this two-bedroom home looks out on the mountains and forest.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2022
  • But in previous trips to the mountaintop, Notre Dame was exposed for barely playing the same game as the team on the other sideline.
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Earlier in the playoffs, their data showed that half of the states in the country were rooting for the Detroit Lions, another franchise that hasn’t ever reached the mountaintop.
    — Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025

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