Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An arid region of southeast Utah and northeast Arizona noted for numerous red sandstone buttes.
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Examples
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Monument Valley, which is close to Four Corners, where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico all come together at 90-degree angles -- or, at least, they used to -- is stunning, and well-chronicled in the films of John Wayne.
CNET News.com 2009
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Ecoregion 22 lacks the broad, hot basins, such as Monument Valley and the Uinta Basin, that are found in the Colorado Plateaus (20).
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All of them show a helmeted motocross rider—who isn't Mr. Huntsman—zipping through the desert near Utah's Monument Valley.
The Making of Brand Huntsman Neil King Jr. 2011
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"We filmed in Monument Valley in Utah which has a history of wonderful films that have gone to film there," Smith tells TVGuide.com.
From Nixon to the Moon Landing, Doctor Who Takes On America 2011
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Since shooting was out, on my part at least, I took them bluecoats southeast to Monument Valley and started weaving in and out of them cracks and gorges.
Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011
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It was shot on the cheap, using the back lot set of a television Western program, so the West as a physical space whose empty vastness was once one of the principle protagonists of many Ford movies, notably in his spectacular usages of Monument Valley, is barely present as subject.
Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance? Mira Schor 2011
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When I need a break from gardening I go to Monument Valley, Seattle, Sweden, the Balkans, Eastern Europe—nature is very rich there.
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It was shot on the cheap, using the back lot set of a television Western program, so the West as a physical space whose empty vastness was once one of the principle protagonists of many Ford movies, notably in his spectacular usages of Monument Valley, is barely present as subject.
Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance? Mira Schor 2011
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Las Vegas is a busy hub for tourists who set off for western landmarks, including the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and Utah's Monument Valley.
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It is an ancient sacred site not too far from the better-known Monument Valley.
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