How to use "plateau" in a sentence

They came over the rise onto a plateau, an enormous shelf carved in the side of the mountain.

The plateau was basically the work of nature, but man's hand was in evidence

Yet the weak illumination that the lamps provided was apparently sufficient for the security cameras to obtain clear images of the entire plateau, because cameras were attached to every lamppost, and not an inch of the area escaped their unblinking attention.

The plateau was ethereally silent.

What I'm going to do is make an indirect approach to the plateau, moving with the wind instead of across it

She squinted up into the snow-shipped night and saw the chopper coming over the rise at the west end of the plateau

As they drove off the plateau, around the burning wreckage of the helicopter, Danny said, "They were bad people