How to Use mesa in a Sentence

mesa

noun
Definition of mesanext
Synonyms for mesanext
  • The people farmed on the top of the mesa and lived in the dwellings.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The 500-foot climbs to get up the mesa are steep but worth it.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 22 July 2019
  • There is a long stretch of beach and also a large mesa.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • But Lukens was taken by the mesa’s soils—deep if poor—and cold mists.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • There is no lodging on the mesa other than the three yurts.
    — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • The boom on the mesa also would lead Jonas Salk to build his institute across the street.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Twelve miles or so of hiking across the mesa made for great sleeping that night.
    — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • Hike with caution on the top of the mesa — there are no guardrails, and some exposed sections are windy.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Going down a dirt road that clung to a mesa, the hood and front fenders set up a St. Vitus dance.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
  • Yellow Jacket Trail and Cottonwood Trail to the top of the mesa: 9 miles round trip.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Perched on a mesa, the hotel overlooks the Mittens and Merrick Butte.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Born from earth, fire and water, many recall the oranges, reds and tans of the Southwest’s mesas, cliffs and arroyos.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The town sits on a plain between a mesa and a ridge, next to a border fence still under construction.
    — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
  • Their trip back home took three hours, their school bus rolling through moonlit mountain passes and mesas, and plains.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Stop at the Grand Mesa Visitor Center at the top of the mesa for more information.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 19 Sep. 2019
  • On a wrenching three-hour drive from the mesa over old logging roads, seven black bears were sighted.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Peerwani said King’s mesa colon, the mesentery that supplies blood to the colon, was cut likely a week before his death.
    — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 May 2017
  • This vast two-part trench, long enough and deep enough to be visible from space, was cut into a mesa in Nevada.
    — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The automobile tracks, made over a wide circle of about half a mile, told how the body in its burlap wrapping had been taken to the mesa.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Suitable habitats for bobcats include foothills, canyons, mesas, and plateaus because of the brush.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Virtually all of the mesa, however, was left out of the Trump boundaries.
    — Jonathan Thompson, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Having more than exceeded its footprint on the mesa, the school needs more students, land and grant money.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Also, aircraft take flight from the prominent mesa that acts as the hub of this Table Top/Airport Mesa loop hike.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • North Table Mountain: Situated at the northern edge of Golden, this gem has 15 miles of trails around and on top of the mesa.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 22 July 2019
  • Look carefully to the northeast and the barely visible road cut can be seen crawling up the flanks of a barren mesa.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The canyon’s iron way, a series of sturdy iron bars that rise up the 450-foot cliff, guides climbers back to the mesa as views of southern Utah’s iconic red rocks unfold at their backs.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Rifts and mesas lifted, fell, vanished, then reappeared.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • North of 64th, the trail becomes concrete and descends for about a mile before climbing a series of switchbacks to the top of a mesa just over five miles from the Easley Road trailhead.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 May 2024
  • Back at the metal workshop, the roaring sound of the kiln — which is used in the process of turning molten bronze and aluminum into objects — fills the quiet desert mesa with an ambient soundtrack.
    — Angella D’avignon, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024

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