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mountain range

noun

a series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line.
a series of mountains, or of more or less parallel lines of mountains, closely related, as in origin.
an area in which the greater part of the land surface is in considerable degree of slope, upland summits are small or narrow, and there are great differences in elevations within the area (commonly over 2,000 feet, or 610 meters).

mountain range

First recorded in 1825–35

To the north, the icy southern peaks of the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountain range on the continent, nip at the sky.

A ski and snowboard week held in the jagged Sierra Nevada mountain range.

The nerve gas shells were fired from a military base in a mountain range to the west of Damascus, according to the report.

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In the countryside, my view is of trees and some kind of mountain range in the distance.

It was quite two miles to the ascending road at the foot of the mountain range that divided the great valley.

Malacca is, near the coast, merely hilly; but further in the interior the hills swell into a fine mountain range.

Beneath them was a blur of whirling white; ahead was an upthrust mountain range upon which they were driving.

Wild thoughts of a big signal fire—But how could that be sighted across a mountain range.

It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one.

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