Sentences with 'altitudes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word altitudes and other words derived from it.
• « Members of migrating flocks of Western Gulls follow each other on updrafts, where they can reach higher altitudes and make better progress. Instead of consuming energy by flapping their wings, they simply climb and glide. Biologist William Hamilton calls this "cheap flight". »
• « Snow that has fallen on the plain or at low altitudes has a short life span because it is melted by the first spring frosts, even in the coldest areas. At higher altitudes it takes a little longer, but it ends in the same way. »