toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

Mt. Kilimanjaro
in a sentence

show 14 more with this conextual meaning
  • And you're not allowed to say Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • When she briefly got up to leave the table, he muttered that she had once climbed Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • I've climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and felt how quickly the dense Kenyan heat at the base of the mountain transforms into the chill of its snowcapped peak, where deep breaths are hard to find.†   (source)
  • In bagging Everest, he became the first person to climb all of the Seven Summits,* a feat that brought him worldwide renown, spurred The highest peaks on each of the seven continents are: Everest, 29,028 feet (Asia); Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (South America); McKinley (also known as Denali) rus, 18,510 feet (Europe); Vinson Massif America); Kilimanjaro, 19,340 feet (Africa); Elb , 20,320 feet (North feet (Antarctica); Kosciusko, 7,316 feet (Australia).†   (source)
  • In addition to himself, the three male climbers, and a British climber and photographer named Bruce Herrod, Woodall wanted to include a woman on the expedition, so prior to leaving South Africa he invited six female candidates on a physically grueling but technically undemanding ascent of 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • In ten years, the head of every department at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center will be a Tanzanian.†   (source)
  • And those other drugs that do almost as much for us; some kids go Earthside to school now; And Tibet catapult—took seventeen years instead of ten; Kilimanjaro job was finished sooner.†   (source)
  • Finally, when Dempsey deemed his son old enough to make the climb, rather than enjoying his trip to the top of Africa, Greg says, "I gagged and puked my way up Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • He saw this life rising before him as clearly as he'd seen the summit of Kilimanjaro as a boy, as brilliantly as the peerless pyramid of K2 still haunted his dreams.†   (source)
  • Dempsey threw every molecule of himself into the great achievement of his life—raising money for and founding Tanzania's first teaching hospital, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.†   (source)
  • And "Eliana," which means "gift of God," in Chagga, the tribal language of the Kilimanjaro region, after Mortenson's late beloved sister Christa Eliana Mortenson.†   (source)
  • "Yesu ni refiki Yangu, Ah kayee Mbinguni" ("What a friend we have in Jesus, He lives in Heaven"), he sang in Swahili, the language they had used in the plain church building, with its distant view of Kilimanjaro, at services every Sunday.†   (source)
  • But in 1958, when he was only three months old, his parents had packed him along on the great adventure of their lives, a posting to work as missionaries teaching in Tanzania, in the shadow of the continent's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • And Mortenson, then a bullishly fit thirty-five-year-old, who had summited Kilimanjaro at age eleven, who'd been schooled on the sheer granite walls of Yosemite, then graduated to half a dozen successful Himalayan ascents, had no doubt when he arrived in May that he would soon stand on what he considered "the biggest and baddest summit on Earth.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)