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• Climbing up that steep ridge isn't on. We'll have to find another route.From the entry on
• The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England.From the entry down
• The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys.From the entry musciform
• The sulci and gyri are the grooves and ridges, respectively.From the entry sulcus
• Nutlet rugulose to transversely ridged; tubercle without grayish enlarged base.From the entry rugulose
• The mountain ridge forms the nearmost boundary of the county.From the entry nearmost
• Streams cut through open plains draping off the mountain ridge.From the entry drape off
• The land around here is very ridgy, so we get too little sun between ridges and too much wind at the tops.From the entry ridgy
• Syrts may be separated from each other by higher ridges, and may serve as water divides between drainage basins for larger rivers.From the entry syrt
• The base is concave near the circumference, then slightly convex, concentrically granosely ridged.2021 November 16, Wikipedia contributors, “Chytra kirki”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry granosely
• Passegardes, in ancient armor, were ridges on the shoulder-pieces to turn the blow of a lance.2019, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer, Good Press. From the entry passegarde
• The trochanter is a low, thick S-shaped ridge along the mediocaudal edge of the shaft.2015 November 13, “Hadrosauroid Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the Sultanate of Oman”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry mediocaudal
• From the chappe to three fourths the length of the blade runs a pronounced center ridge.2013 August 6, J. Bernhardt, The Watchers: End of Paradise, Author House, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry chappe
• Ridges correspond to the tiny depressions observed in ultra thin sections of cryo-processed samples (Fig. 4).2012, Ilse Kranner, Richard Beckett, Ajit Varma, Protocols in Lichenology, →ISBN. From the entry cryo-processed
• Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.2012, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Communicating with Virtual Worlds, page 140. From the entry sweat hole
• One foot caught on a ridge in the blacktop driveway and I stumbled.2007, Nicole Young, chapter 11, in Love Me If You Must (A Patricia Amble Mystery), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry lidless
• In young mountains, upfolds (anticlines) form ridges and downfolds (synclines) form valleys.2006, Peter L. Kresan, Reed Mencke, Understanding Earth Student Study Guide. From the entry upfold
• Avoid convex surfaces, especially on lee ridges; this is where slab avalanches most frequently start.2004, Craig Connally, The Mountaineering Handbook, page 48. From the entry whumpf
• Only gravel ridges are poor enough to offer pasques full elbow-room in April sun.2003, Jerry Pavia, Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Photos, Descriptions, and Early Explorer Insights, Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry pasque
• The crack and blast of a duel on the far side of the thorn ridge beckoned.2003, Thomas Goltz, Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving, →ISBN. From the entry onehandedness
• Niuheliang is a hilly ridge on the boundary between Lingyuan and Jianping County in Liaoning Province.2001, Tianlong Jiao, “Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology”, in Gender and the Archaeology of Death (Gender and Archaeology…. From the entry Jianping
• In both mandrills and drills, males have long muzzles with pronounced maxillary ridges and long tooth rows.1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200. From the entry mandrill
• In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.1996, Venkataraman Srinivasan, André Dubois, “Non-Human Primates”, in Steen Lindkær Jensen, Hans Gregerson, Mohammad Hosein Shokouh-Amin…. From the entry labyrinthine
• 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
• Akras touched her scarred cheeks, tracing the hard ridges of deliberately mishealed flesh.1992, Cheryl J. Franklin, The Inquisitor, page 424. From the entry misheal
• Like those in southern Huntingdon County, the ridges of southern Blair County were often covered with ganister.1991,, Town of Claysburg - Refractories Company Town, Historic American Buildings Survey, page 2. From the entry ganister
• From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321. From the entry typewriter
• Another way was for one man to take the dogs and drive the ridge.1972 February 17, Foxfire Fund, Inc., The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the…. From the entry swag
• Dorsal ridge present specimens are somewhat more ovate (i.e. less subdeflected toward hinge above muscle spot.1950, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin - Geological Survey of Canada. From the entry subdeflected
• The posterio-lateral socket ridge lies between the socket and the interarea (pl. 2, figs. 9b, 13b, 16b).1949, Geological Survey Professional Paper, page L-2. From the entry interarea
• His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126. From the entry cicatrize
• The finely cut peak of Helicon peered over the low intervening ridges.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 7. From the entry intervening
• Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry swale
• The pack commenced to work back and forth along the ridge.1911, Zane Grey, “VI. Trails”, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, →OL, page 63. From the entry bow-wow
• Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.2016, Robert C. Graham, A. Toby O’Geen, “Geomorphology and Soils”, in Harold Mooney, Erika Zavaleta, editors, Ecosystems of California…. From the entry spit
• The trulleum in many groups is closed along its inner (medial) border by a raised ridge of cuticle, the canthellus.2016, Brian L. Fisher, Barry Bolton, Ants of Africa and Madagascar: A Guide to the Genera. From the entry canthellus
• Its seven miles includes the undulating ridge — the dragon’s back — between Shek O Peak and Wan Cham Shan.2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Big Wave Bay
• Roll each gnocco over the tines of a fork to make ridges, then place on a tea towel.2015, Marie Laforêt, Vegan Bible, Grub Street, published 2016, →ISBN. From the entry gnocco

Meaning of ridge

1. noun The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
2. noun Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
3. noun The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

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How do you use ridge in a sentence?

Ridge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.”

What is a short sentence with ridge?

“Nutlet rugulose to transversely ridged; tubercle without grayish enlarged base.”

What does ridge mean?

Ridge means the back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.