How to Use ridgetop in a Sentence

ridgetop

noun
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  • To reach that ridgetop, the fire had traveled 13 miles southeast in 30 hours.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Winds along ridgetops are predicted to gust 20 mph out of the northeast.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • A couple miles away, Wil Berndt, 68, watched from a ridgetop as flames raced up the canyon toward his home.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • At one point, taking it all in on a ridgetop, this huge herd of reindeer came beneath my feet.
    — Outside Online, 7 June 2018
  • The lodge launched Siwash Star Camp, two canvas tents set on a ridgetop platform deck with views of the lake and mountains.
    — Sara Clemence, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Tolby said Thursday should bring the heaviest snow with high winds and ridgetop gusts that could reach up to 100 mph.
    — Sophie Haigney, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The builders want to tunnel through a mountain some 700 feet below the level of the trail, which runs along the ridgetop and intertwines with the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    — Robert Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The cemetery is located on a ridgetop north of Aero Parkway in Florence.
    — Nancy Daly, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • That’s why stalking hogs after spotting them from a distant road or ridgetop is a common method.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The Tamarack fire started July 4 when lightning struck a rocky ridgetop in the Mokelumne Wilderness and at first, only a single tree was ablaze.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
  • Winds gusting to nearly 20 mph (32 kph) at times drove the fire through dense chaparral on the foothill slopes and along ridgetops, sending up an enormous column of smoke that smeared the sky for miles around.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The ridgetop offered several great picnic areas with vast views across the surrounding plains.
    — Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2022
  • TrekSonoma Follow forested paths along creeks and rivers, then gently climb to a ridgetop for wraparound vistas of mountains, farms, sea and sky.
    — Harriot Manley, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2018
  • Black bears were so attracted to the heavy concentration of ridgetop chinquapins that locals used the area for trapping.
    — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
  • Easterly ridgetops saw winds averaging around 30 mph and gusting to 60 mph.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Harry Burleigh made it to another ridgetop and built a three-sided structure out of random limbs, and finally found a water source: a tree that had snapped in half that had water pooled in its stump.
    — Donovan Brink, oregonlive, 20 July 2021
  • The other photograph shows a high ridgetop overlooking a sweeping valley.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • To help feed their three young children, Molly and Scott Moffat backpacked 120 pounds of food, bought at Costco by a family member, to their isolated ridgetop home.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The one-acre property is set on a ridgetop and enjoys unobstructed views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • On Saturday, a heli-skiing tour carrying five passengers and a pilot crashed on an unnamed ridgetop north of the glacier, returning from a day of riding in the Chugach Mountains.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Fearing to continue climbing to the ridgetop during aftershocks that were also significant earthquakes, the women stayed on their platform of ferns and bent-over blades of rye grass.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Flames in the canyon bottom create a convection oven, carrying fire uphill and over ridgetops, spewing hot embers a mile or more into other neighborhoods.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • After a 20-minute journey from Wanaka, McCaw’s helicopter lands on the pristine glacier, gingerly joining a dozen other choppers in formation on the snowy ridgetop.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Residents on Viewside Lane got word to evacuate immediately as flames topped ridgetops directly above their homes.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2017
  • At the top, the trail crosses a dirt road and then peters off into a ridgetop meadow of scrabbly rock, cactuses and brilliant wildflowers (namely bright yellow arrowleaf balsamroot and amber mountain lupine, from April into late May).
    — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017

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