Examples of “massif” in a Sentence

noun A large, compact mass of mountains forming the main part of a range.

• The village lies at the foot of a great granite massif.
• Walkers spent three days crossing the massif.
• Cloud hid the summit of the massif all morning.
• A massif can be made up of hard, ancient rock.

noun In geology, a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and moved as a single unit.

• The geologist mapped the faults around the massif.
• The study described how the massif had shifted as one block.