How to Use headland in a Sentence

headland

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  • The design firm’s concept also includes the construction of an artificial underwater reef in the ocean beyond the headlands to slow the approach of erosive waves.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The duo hiked the headland with a small group in 1806, in search of whale blubber.
    — OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The coast will see gusts near 50 mph, with gusts to 65 mph on the beaches and headlands.
    — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The ruins of the castle built by the invaders on the rocky headland still stands.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Part of the right-of-way can still be seen along the Rockaway headlands and the rail berm in Pedro Point.
    — Ginny Prior, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
  • My room overlooked a small blue bay and, beyond that, the headlands near San Miguel.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2018
  • One final rocky headland led us to the edge of the Chilean Memorial cove.
    — oregonlive, 23 June 2021
  • Monday will be a breezy day with gusts of up to 35 mph along the beaches and headlands, and 25 mph through the Willamette Valley.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2023
  • You are tasked with going from town to picturesque town in the headlands of Marin County to find it.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
  • From its curved windows, the sea glistens along a coastline of headlands and bays.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
  • No seastacks, mountains, hills or headlands stand out quite like The Thumb.
    — OregonLive.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • In New Zealand, the spirits of the dead leap off the headland at Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Winds will be strong along the beaches and headland for Tuesday and into Wednesday.
    — OregonLive.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The bypass system could be combined with artificial headlands to hold the sand on the beach.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Cape Blanco is the westernmost point in the lower 48 states, and a beautiful headland to boot.
    — OregonLive.com, 13 May 2017
  • The views from Teddy's Lookout on Lorne's headland reserve are also some of the best on the iconic driving route.
    — Sarah Reid, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Think the charm of a New England fishing village and the beauty of the Mendocino headlands.
    — Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 4 July 2019
  • Anchoring off a mighty headland, Bartholomew Gosnold and his crew fished for food and caught cod aplenty.
    — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The project put back what sea level rise, subsidence, wind and waves had taken from the headland over the past century.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The Cape is a massive prow, a knobby 1,300-foot-high headland that plunges directly to the sea from the southernmost flank of Isla Hornos.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
  • Recreational areas with seats, paths and native plants would top the headlands, which are intended to hold sand in place on the beach.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Just across the highway from the trailhead parking area, hikers can walk a quick half mile down an easy path to Hobbit Beach, a nice stretch of sand that runs north from the base of the headland.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2021
  • The goats, which normally live on a vast headland near the sea called the Great Orme, have taken advantage of the lack of people and cars to roam into the seaside town.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Twenty-six hiking trails lace the park, with occasional sightings of moose and black bear (even whales, from the headlands).
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
  • The hike to Cape Lookout, one of the prettiest paths, winds through 2.5 miles of lush forest to a headland overlooking the Pacific.
    — Mona Gable, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The tours were back, for now, and Collado was recently with a group that had followed him to the top of a hill in Cap de Creus, a rocky headland above a dark blue sea about 15 miles south of France.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
  • On the archipelago’s northernmost headland, 20 or so gray seals honked on a ledge.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The bones, wedged into a layer of limestone on a coastal headland, belonged to a huge pterosaur, a type of extinct flying reptile that once roamed the earth with dinosaurs.
    — NBC News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • In the shadow of Santa Cruz Island’s headlands and rocky fingers a small craft had raised a red-and-white striped flag indicating that there were divers in the water.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2019
  • What do a grassy headland on the Oregon coast, a deadly lake in the high desert and a wildflower paradise in the Columbia River Gorge all have in common?
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021

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