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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Dolomites

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Examples

  • Accustomed as one has become to the strangely different aspects under which a Dolomite is capable of presenting itself from opposite points of the compass, here is a metamorphosis which the most erratic imagination could never have foreseen.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • This form, as I by and by discover, is of frequent occurrence in Dolomite structure; the Civita affording, perhaps, the most remarkable case in point.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Twenty months after my son Krishu was born, my wife Candice granted me a ten-day furlough to travel to Italy to embark on an arduous bike trip through the Dolomite Mountains.

    Gotham Chopra: Peaks, Potties, Perspectives Gotham Chopra 2010

  • Di Luca, who rides for the LPR Brakes team, covered the 162-kilometer (100. 67-mile) leg from Padua to San Martino di Castrozza in the Dolomite range in 4 hours, 15 minutes, 4 seconds.

    Di Luca wins 4th stage of Giro, Armstrong dropped to sixth 2009

  • Twenty months after my son Krishu was born, my wife Candice granted me a ten-day furlough to travel to Italy to embark on an arduous bike trip through the Dolomite Mountains.

    Gotham Chopra: Peaks, Potties, Perspectives Gotham Chopra 2010

  • McConkey, 39, a legendary big-mountain skier from Squaw Valley, died in northern Italy last March when a daring stunt off a Dolomite Mountains cliff went awry.

    Mancuso closes out with heavy heart; Vonn one race to go 2010

  • Petacchi completed the leg from Grado to Valdobbiadene at the foot of the Dolomite Range in 4 hours, 45 minutes, 27 seconds.

    Giro: Petacchi takes overall lead as USA's Vande Velde crashes 2009

  • Italiaoutdoors's ski instructor/mountain guide duo, Kathy Bechtel and Vernon McClure, leads snow-loving gourmands on custom tours through the Trentino-Alto Adige region of the Dolomite mountains.

    Fresh in Powder 2012

  • Twenty months after my son Krishu was born, my wife Candice granted me a ten-day furlough to travel to Italy to embark on an arduous bike trip through the Dolomite Mountains.

    Gotham Chopra: Peaks, Potties, Perspectives Gotham Chopra 2010

  • Big Dolomite boulders dot the narrow, muddy route laced with thick tree roots that's set alongside a steep drop off.

    Harmon Leon: Dolomite Biking: Are You Experienced? 2010

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