(n.) A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equine ehrlichiosis was found to be seasonal in horses in the foothills of northern California, with higher incidence than reported previously.
(2) Sahar Matha Secondary School and Ghoretar Health Post serve approximately 30,000 people living in scattered communities over the steep foothills of the Himalaya in East Nepal.
(3) The effects of abiotic and biotic mortality factors on preimaginal survivorship and the production of adults were investigated for populations of Culex tarsalis Coquillett at a stable foothill breeding site during 1985 and at seven ephemeral breeding sites during 1986.
(4) Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat pushes a wheelbarrow up a narrow street whistling to himself as the smell of woodsmoke drifts out of chimneys.
(5) Putin has already mandated a $20bn budget to build and renovate 10 stadiums that stretch from St Petersburg in the north to Sochi in the south and from Kaliningrad in the west to Ekaterinburg in the foothills of the Urals in the east.
(6) Arab fighters spread across the foothills of the White Mountains launched a barrage of mortar fire as 700 mojahedin troops loyal to three different commanders tried to begin a new, coordinated guerrilla offensive.
(7) Bugarach, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, became known as the "Village of the End of the World" following two years of intense media focus since the local mayor raised concerns about online rumours that the Mayans had predicted it was the only place that would be spared Armageddon.
(8) On September 14 and 15, 1989, a symposium entitled 'Surgical and nonsurgical management of cardiovascular disease' jointly sponsored by the University of Calgary and Foothills Hospital was held to help mark the one year anniversary of an expansion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and cardiac surgery services in Calgary to include an academically oriented program at the Foothills Hospital.
(9) A longitudinal demographic-parasitological survey on malaria was conducted at 10 weekly intervals starting from September in one foothill village with the population of 1,095 and one epidemiologically comparable plain village with the population of 962 in Kyauktaga township, Bago division, 120 miles north of Yangon.
(10) An epidemiological survey of tegumentary leishmaniasis (Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis) was carried out in three regions of Bolivia in the Andean foothill and Amazonian forest.
(11) It is as dry in the foothills and in southern California as during a typical July – the height of the fire season.
(12) The $1bn will be spent through 2016 at the plant in Greer, a town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(13) Geographically, too, the land is compact: a five-hour drive over the spine of the Southern Alps will take you through a dozen entirely different landscapes – beach river valley marshland rainforest gorge foothill highland alps plains peninsula beach –and each with its own weather, its own skies, its own quality of light.
(14) Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Fresno, found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff's Lieutenant Bob Miller said.
(15) A 55-year-old male, a resident of a village in the foothills of the Himalayas in the north-western region of India, presented with a huge nasopharyngeal tumour but was subsequently found to be infected with Leishmania donovani, involving the nasopharyngeal tissue and the draining lymph nodes as well as a visceral infection.
(16) Weather officials said the mountains and the Antelope Valley foothills north-east of Los Angeles were under the most risk, but there was only a small chance of rainstorms like those that prompted flooding in California on Thursday.
(17) Some cases also occur between the foothills and the Red Sea coast.
(18) Moreover, the details of the £20bn supposedly to be provided by non-government sources are very unclear: last week, there were reported noises from Whitehall insiders suggesting that the sum amounted to an "aspiration", while pension funds confirmed they were only in the foothills of talks with government, and the odd sceptical voice wondered whether such risk-averse interests would actually want to get involved.
(19) Andy Haldane, soon to be chief economist at the Bank of England, told an audience of economists in Toronto last week that we were "still in the intellectual foothills in terms of dealing with potential financial risks".
(20) Slightly sleepless, we arrived in the foothills of the Rockies to find a team of a dozen or so working on the future under the leadership of a man called Roger Fidler.
Mountain
Definition:
(n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.
(n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.
(n.) A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
(a.) Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(3) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(4) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(5) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
(6) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(7) The experiment took place at two experimental localities in mountainous pastures of the Central-Slovakian region.
(8) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
(9) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(10) Eight cases of snakebite occurred in seven of 11 captive Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) during June and July 1987.
(11) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(12) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(13) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
(14) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
(15) The data from this study demonstrate that false-positive results from tests for Rocky Mountain spotted fever increase with the duration of pregnancy.
(16) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
(17) A now-defunct Yahoo discussion group supposedly jointly run by "Amina Arraf" was listed under an address in Stone Mountain, Georgia, that public records show is a home owned by MacMaster and Froelicher.
(18) According to Wangchu Sherpa, an official from the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, Upadhyay had arrived at the Everest base camp in mid-April and had been waiting for good weather to start acclimatising for his ascent.
(19) Nemanja Matic, more normally such a man-mountain of a midfield shield, is diminished and was beaten too easily in the air by James Morrison for the home side’s second.
(20) Among 103 family members with sickle cell trait (Hgb AS), no significant risk of developing crises could be identified with either mountain or pressurized aircraft travel.