Sentence example with the word 'promontory'

promontory

beak, breakwater, chersonese, delta, head, hook, naze, peninsula, reef, spit, tongue

Definition n. a natural elevation

Last update: November 24, 2016


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The heartbroken young man threatened to jump off the promontory and into the icy lake.   [Please select]

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Because the mountain is eroding and making the promontory unstable, people can no longer take pictures of the ocean from the ledge.   [Please select]

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The great advantages which the Peiraic promontory with its three natural harbours offered for purposes of defence and commerce were first recognized by Themistocles, in whose archonship (493 B.C.) the fortifications of the Peiraeus were begun.   [Please select]

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"It was a promontory but a short time ago."   [Please select]

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I am fair, as when thou didst woo me on the promontory.   [Please select]

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Then, farther up, the valley seemed to end in a huge promontory.   [Please select]

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The promontory contains three farms, reclaimed from the forest of pines, oaks, alders, willows, and evergreens.   [Please select]

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On July 4, one gyrfalcon sat on a promontory at the south end of Barrier Lake.   [Please select]

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There, some few hundred yards distant, on a promontory, stood a red horse.   [Please select]

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