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• Rising sun hits it dead the same way, only earlier, over the plateau.2005, Brock Brower, Nancy Lawton, Blue Dog, Green River. From the entry ridgebone
• Peat plateaux are larger landforms formed by the coalescence of palsas.2003, Richard J. Huggett, Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry palsa
• Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries.1998 March 6, Roger J. Phillips, Vicki L. Hansen, “Geological Evolution of Venus: Rises, Plains, Plumes, and Plateaus”, in Science, volume…. From the entry onlap
• He langlaufed across the small plateau that tilted gently upward, and paused on the ridge.1996, Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange, page 251. From the entry langlauf
• These are marine asteroidian limestones forming the slopes and the plateau of Saint-Emilion.1990, Bernard Ginestet, Saint-Emilion, page 27. From the entry asteroidian
• Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 543. From the entry continental plate
• From the Tarim Pendi (Tarim Basin) in the north the mountains and the plateau are seen together.1988, Trudy J. Hanmer, “Kunlun Shan”, in Living in the Mountains, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46, column 1. From the entry Tarim Pendi
• The southwestern part of this plateau lies in the country of Tibet.1970, Margaret Rau, “The Wild Female Yak River”, in The Yangtze River, New York: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry Chinghai
• The vegetation on this plateau is chiefly vaal and rosyntjiebos, with areas of swarthaak and Karroo veld.1947, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association, page 156. From the entry swarthaak
• In total three-quarters of the western Big Tobacco giants' sales last year came from so-called combustibles as vaping sales are plateauing.2025 June 14, “Big Tobacco stock rally reveals smokeless future is still a long way off”, in FT Weekend (Lex. section), London: The…. From the entry combustible
• Behind this shimmering disk, the secret plateau.”2021 December 3, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Sylvain Tesson, “Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Kunlun
• The Tibetan plateau — the geographic and cultural region associated with Tibet — has traditionally been divided into four historical regions.2020 July 11, Akhilesh Pillalamarri, “History of Tibet-Ladakh Relations and Their Modern Implications”, in The Diplomat, archived from the…. From the entry Ü-Tsang
• On the high plateau, the mistral can unleash in winter the burle, a swirling, blinding snowstorm propelled almost horizontally.2002, John M. Merriman, The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry burle
• Directly above me, on the plateau, sat the magnificent fortress.2002 November 22, Martha Marino, “From Carcassonne to Paris”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications…. From the entry fairy-tale-like
• The eastward pinching and thinning were caused by the rapid basining of the plateau over the Pasco-Richland area in south-central Washington.1992, John H. Bush, W. Patrick Seward, Geologic field guide to the Columbia River, page 9. From the entry basin
• This region forms part of the great interlacustrine plateau.1990, The Royal Geography Society, The Geographical Journal — February edition, page 179. From the entry interlacustrine
• Elsewhere over large areas of the plateau and the foothill regions, the qanat irrigation cultures were weakened considerably.1988, Keith Stanley McLachlan, The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran. From the entry qanat
• Raging down the glacier valleys from the polar plateau, the Katabatic winds unleash Condition One: blizzard, superfrost and white outs.1982, Crawford Kilian, Icequake, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 275. From the entry superfrost
• Located on the loess plateau, the county is full of barren hills, and therefore it is very difficult to develop production.1975 January 13 [1975 January 10], “Persist in Continuing the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat--Some Experiences in…. From the entry fuku
• The meeting point of the plateau and the plains is just east of the first great bend of the Yellow River.1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Urban Civilization and the Indus Valley; Neolithic and Pre-Shang China”, in A History of Far Eastern Art, New York…. From the entry Middle Kingdom
• On the southern margin the plateau falls to a sandy outwash plain which merges into the zone of urstromtäler.1950, Margaret Reid Shackleton, Europe: A Regional Geography, London: Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 263. From the entry urstromtal
• The uplifted western rim of the plateau concealed all the world except a few ice-peaks that lifted above it.1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 345. From the entry Depsang Plains
• An ovate implement from the Lower Chalk plateau has a few similar rechippings, and tells the same tale.1919, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. From the entry rechipping
• The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps.1915, Albert Gardner Robinson, Cuba, Old and New. From the entry intermontane
• According to one report, the power usage effectiveness (PUE) for data centers globally has fallen to about 1.56 on average and essentially plateaued.2025 October 29, Mike Pearl, “China Submerges a Data Center in the Ocean to Conserve Water. Is That Even a Good Idea? Data centers are…. From the entry pue
• Here on the Changthang plateau, in a remote region of the Indian Himalayas, the altitude had left me lightheaded and gasping for air.2022 February 14, Ronald Patrick, “Glimpses of Northern India’s Vanishing Nomads”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Changthang
• From the Qaidam basin, trains will tunnel through the Altyn-Tagh — a mountain range that separates the eastern Tarim basin from the Tibetan plateau.2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2020. From the entry Altyn Tagh
• In contrast, the number of irreversible shapes such as spheroechinocyte and spherostomatocyte shapes was higher in plateau RBCs compared with lowland RBCs.2015 December 5, “Adaption to High Altitude: An Evaluation of the Storage Quality of Suspended Red Blood Cells Prepared from the Whole…. From the entry spheroechinocyte
• While it's good to hear the band get comfortable in their new skin, it also makes for a record that plateaus a few songs in.2013 May 28, J. Andrew, “Album Review: ALICE IN CHAINS The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”, in Metal Injection. From the entry card-carrying
• The vast plateau of the Massif Central was still the fortress it had been when the Arverni tribes held out against the Romans.2007, Graham Robb, “Chapter 1: The Undiscovered Continent”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, W.W. Norton and Company…. From the entry unnavigable
• In the Wangjiashan section, proximal to the plateau, sedimentary rocks are deformed and lacustrine deposition is much more frequently interrupted by fluvial deposits.2003 September 10, David L. Dettman, Xiaomin Fang, Carmala N. Garzione, Jijun Li, “Uplift-driven climate change at 12 Ma: a long δ¹⁸O…. From the entry uncomformable
• The geographic features of the plateau (high elevation, rarefied air, mountains, etc.) limited the volume of trade and migration between Tibet and other regions.1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China…. From the entry han
• They had spent much of June and July walking about the plateau near Poronin and discussing Kuba’s pyrotechnic schemes for making money.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry pyrotechnic
• Deep canyons in a highly dissected plateau in Yushe County, Shanxi Province, China, expose the fossil-bearing deposits investigated by the American Museum and Chinese team.1987 December, “Year in Review”, in Rotunda, volume 12, number 11, New York: Waldon Press, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry Yushe
• Also only in North Korea are tiger, lynx, two species of deer, Manchurian weasel and northern pika in the plateau regions of Paektusan.1985, H. Edward Kim, “Land and People”, in Facts about Korea, 18th Revised edition, Seoul: Hollym Corporation, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry North Korea
• Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less torrential although still of considerable strength.1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China, Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry ordos
• The river begins its journey in the Kokoshili Mountains, which rise out of the largest plateau in the world, the Tibetan-Chinghai plateau.1970, Margaret Rau, “The Wild Female Yak River”, in The Yangtze River, New York: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry Chinghai
• When Washtucna Coulee could not contain the great surge, floodwaters rose to make one of the most significant records on the entire plateau.1969 September, J. Harlen Bretz, “The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland”, in The Journal of Geology, volume 77, number 5…. From the entry congeries

Meaning of plateau

1. noun A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland.
2. noun A comparatively stable level after a period of increase. (of a varying quantity).
3. noun An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

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How do you use plateau in a sentence?

Plateau is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Childhood obesity, rising for more than two decades, appears to have hit a plateau, a potentially significant milestone in the battle against excessive weight gain among children.”

What is a short sentence with plateau?

“Adoption has plateaued.”

What does plateau mean?

Plateau means a largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland.