WordNet
n. a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" [syn: range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain]
Usage examples of "chain of mountains".
The cave was in the foothills of a chain of mountains at the southern tip of a peninsula that jutted halfway into a midcontinent inland sea.
They originated in the slopes of the Buffalo Ranges, a chain of mountains of moderate height, the undulating line of which was visible on the horizon.
A lone figure astride a massive warhorse awaited them when they departed the chain of mountains.
During the two first hours we kept them out of sight, but towards dark, as our beasts gave in, we saw their forms in the horizon becoming more and more distinct, while, to render our escape less probable, we found ourselves opposed in front by a chain of mountains, not high, but very steep and rugged.
Africa will push northward into Europe, squeezing the Mediterranean out of existence and thrusting up a chain of mountains of Himalayan majesty running from Paris to Calcutta.
It took her a long time to train the wolf to leave them w- and she didn't think he was ready to give up chasing birds just y The sun was skimming the craggy high peaks at the southern the long chain of mountains to the west, lending a glittering sp the icy facets.
Her empire was divided from theirs by a gulf and chain of mountains, which alone had thus far prevented her sisters from usurping it.
A coast-line which hitherto had been seen only at a great distance, and reported so indefinitely that doubts were left with regard to its continuity, had been resolved into a concrete chain of mountains.
The ground at Barukka's feet buckled and rose to form a miniature chain of mountains as high as her knees, stretching from one side of the cave to the other.
Hot Springs Pass had been a favorite among tourists and nature lovers from all over New Sierra, a serpentine col running through the highest chain of mountains on the planet.
It had seemed that darkness had fallen hours before, but now, as they rose above a sea of clouds from which rose an island chain of mountains, they were treated to a brilliant sunset.
But now she saw that it was part of a great chain of mountains which ringed round the whole world.
Beyond the first chain of mountains was a level plain -- in an earlier age the basin of an inland sea -- and, farther east, a second range curved around in a great arc.
Marshall began to recall that a low chain of mountains had been visible south of the spaceport.