Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sierra
IPA transcription: [si'ɛɹə]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sierra, Scomberomorus_sierra
    Meaning: a Spanish mackerel of western North America
  • Synonyms: sierra
    Meaning: a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
Usage examples
  • My own Sierra trip was ten years long.
  • None of mine when I was exploring the Sierra cost over a dollar a week, most of them less.
  • All the High Sierra excursions that I have sketched cost from a dollar a week to anything you like.
  • It is in the heart of the High Sierra east of Yosemite, 8500 to 9000 feet above the level of the sea.
  • All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines, but moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.
  • It appears, therefore, that the Sierra forests indicate the extent and positions of ancient moraines as well as they do belts of climate.
  • Early next morning visit the small glacier on the north side of Merced Peak, the first of the sixty-five that I discovered in the Sierra.
  • "Well, mother, Captain Bramble says he shall sail soon, and then we can go round to Sierra Leone, and from thence take passage direct for England."
  • A rough low cabin of logs, hastily thrown together, housed through the winter months of the Sierra foothills the two men who now, in the warm days of early June, sat by the primitive fireplace cooking a midday meal.
  • Thus harnessed for the field, he was as great a matter of stare and wonderment among the country folk, who had never seen a regular angler, as was the steel-clad hero of La Mancha among the goatherds of the Sierra Morena.