Sentences with highland
high·land
H h - It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
- In the south-east the land rises from the Sambre-Meuse valley to the highlands of the Ardennes.
- The highland regions were absorbed into the Incan Empire less than a hundred years before the Spanish conquest in 1532.
- Conversely, the highlanders had never before seen people who lived beyond their mountain valleys and plains.
- Against so powerful a body resistance was hopeless; the invading army made a peaceful entry on 30th March, and, after passing through the town, encamped on the Queen's Links, where it was afterwards joined by five hundred highlandmen sent by Argyle.
- In some parts of the highlands, villages are separated by valleys and mountain ridges.
- The traditional homeland of the Amhara people is the central highland plateau of Ethiopia.
- The foundation of the Bolivian diet in the Andean highlands or altiplano is the potato.
- Up here, where the road climbed into the highlands, the land was barren.
- The coastal population is thinly clustered in villages, but over one-third of the total population live in highland valleys.
- These insects are found in rain forests, highlands, and deserts such as the Persian Gulf.
- Anthropologist Paul Sillitoe learnt about stone tool use from Papua New Guinea highlanders in 1983.
- A smaller number of Peru's indigenous highlanders, probably about half a million, speak Aymar�, the language of a tribe conquered by the Incas.
- The topography is a mix of central highlands and peripheral foothills and plains.
- Rice is the staple food except among those in highland areas where rice is difficult to grow.
- The central highland region is temperate, and nights can get chilly.
- Both regions enjoy long hot summers and, apart from highland areas like the Cevennes and Pyrennees, mild winters.
- The highlands have rugged terrain that is difficult to cultivate.
- The quantity of alcohol consumed by southern highlanders was, by all accounts, stunning.
- These species occur mainly in montane forests and grasslands in the south-eastern highlands of the country.
- Many areas of both the highlands and the lowlands supported very dense populations prior to the Roman invasion.
- Even if you own a good-tempered west highland white terrier.