continental dividein a sentence
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The Continental Divide Trail runs 3,100 miles between Mexico and Canada.
continental divide = where the Rockies and other mountain ranges bisect the United States with rivers on the west side flowing to the Pacific and those on the right side flowing to the Atlantic
- By midmorning they were within Oakwald Forest, the wood that surrounded Endovier and served as a continental divide between the "civilized" countries of the East and the uncharted lands of the West.† (source)
- We crossed the Continental Divide and the Mojave Desert.† (source)
- I read late, creamy paper yellowed in a circle of weak lights, as the unknown darkness sped past, over the Continental Divide and out of the Rockies, Popper content after his romp around Denver and snoozing happily in his bag.† (source)
- The powerless life raft, sloshing around the North Pacific, emits a vast, spreading plume of steam like that of an Iron Horse chugging full blast over the Continental Divide.† (source)
- I mean, before I'd been worried about what the continental divide would do to us.† (source)
- East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley.† (source)
- Just to the east of us rose the snow-capped Continental Divide.† (source)
- I crossed into New Mexico, rushed past Gallup in the night, and camped on the Continental Divide—and much more spectacular it is here than in the north.† (source)
- Creede, Durango, Silver City, Central City, over the Continental Divide into Utah,—his strange Episcopal carriage was known throughout that rugged granite world.† (source)