Use "escarpment" in a sentence
1. This is the escarpment of night.
2. The fox went to ground under a rocky escarpment.
3. A thin, resistant limestone escarpment is present just basinward.
4. A shelf of land extended from the escarpment.
5. Escarpment railway laneway is the place where accidents often happen.
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7. This escarpment is part of the Great Escarpment that runs along much of the eastern coast of Brazil south from the city of Salvador, Bahia.
8. There are several rapids as the river falls off Southern Africa's inland escarpment.
9. Mayon volcano, and evaluating the fault escarpment of the Chi-Chi earthquake.
10. Keywords: hydrogeology, groundwater, underground space, aggregate, mining, sedimentary rocks, Niagara Escarpment.
11. The truck was trundling along the escarpment of the Zambesi valley.
12. By coincidence or other wise, the largest channel is exposed in the Beaver Divide escarpment.
13. Starch, unable to stop, slid 20 feet to the edge of an escarpment.
14. Three cavalry companies gave pursuit, but were scattered when the warriors turned to defend a lava escarpment.
15. The glider circled the escarpment and was carried with the warm air currents into the upper atmosphere.
16. Though they occur in Zambia as well, their ranges are separated by relief features or by the Muchinga escarpment.
17. Luxury Accommodation Framed by undisturbed bush and sweeping views of the breathtaking escarpment, Barranca’s villas are luxury redefined
18. * Nearby is World’s End, an escarpment where the rocky cliff drops precipitously over 5,000 feet [1500 m].
19. The park is quite noticeable from nearby Port Macquarie as a tall escarpment to the north west.
20. Along the length of the eastern coast runs a narrow and steep escarpment containing much of the island's remaining tropical lowland forest.
21. He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment.
22. If they had climbed down the side of the escarpment he had no doubt that she would not have made it.
23. The town gives its name to the Côte de Beaune, the southern half of the Côte d’Or escarpment
24. Cuesta definition, a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other
25. Next day, the Italian units on the escarpment began to descend through the pass, towards the Italian force advancing along the road from Sollum.
26. But within days of making the torturously slow descent from the escarpment down to the river basin, they found evidence of rampant poaching.
27. Above me the reddish escarpment and the red stone of the terraces contrasts with all the fresh greens sketched in long lines.
28. 25 They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield.
29. Buntings is situated near to the rural and well regarded hamlet of Owlswick, near Longwick, just below the Chiltern Hills escarpment, close to the Oxfordshire border
30. An 11th Hussar squadron, the 2nd Rifle Brigade and cruiser tanks of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1st RTR) harassed the Italian force on the escarpment.
31. Cuesta, (Spanish: “slope”, ) physical feature that has a steep cliff or escarpment on one side and a gentle dip or back slope on the other
32. Butte, (French: hillock or rising ground) flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep escarpment from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain
33. On 11 December, the Italians were defeated at Sidi Barrani; Rabia and Sofafi were abandoned and the 7th Armoured Division pursued along the coast and the escarpment.
34. From the Atlantic coast eastward, the Namib gradually ascends in elevation, reaching up to 200 kilometres (120 mi) inland to the foot of the Great Escarpment.
35. The road on the escarpment near Sollum was bombarded by a navy gunboat and targets near Sidi Barrani by two destroyers, from which fires and explosions were seen.
36. 15 The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
37. It is by far the largest city in Eritrea, with a population of some 400,000. Asmara sits atop (2,350m) the Eritrean highlands on the eastern edge of the escarpment. Asmara - History of Asmara
38. The paper describes the landslips in general but concentrates on those parts of the escarpment which form the abandoned coastal cliffs, now protected from marine attack by Romney Marsh.
39. 28 It concluded that the Periploca sepium Bunge, as a alternative shrubbery specie which had wide fitting range of SWC, and could be planted in Loess Plateau especially in the south slope and escarpment.
40. About Bamako One of the fastest growing cities in the world, Bamako sprawls across the flat plains to the north and south of the Niger River, with the Presidential Palace overlooking from the northern escarpment
41. The wooded slopes of the escarpment, an abrupt rise of some 60 m, are etched deeply by gorges with falls at their heads, most notably at NIAGARA FALLS, and are quarried for limestone.
42. Cuesta (kwĕs`tə), asymmetric ridge characterized by a short, steep escarpment on one side, and a long, gentle slope on the other.The steep side exposes the edge of erosion-resistant rock layers that form the Cuestas
43. Batteaux Creek Golf Club 7422 Sideroad 30-31, Nottawa, Ontario In the shadow of the Niagara Escarpment, between Collingwood and Devil’s Glen, and a short drive from Wasaga Beach - Batteaux Creek Golf Club offers golfers one of the most scenic and playable layouts in …