How to Use outcropping in a Sentence

outcropping

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  • The pair sought refuge in the shade of a rock outcropping and hatched a plan.
    — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The outcropping is 190 feet high and known as the King and Queen Seat.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
  • The trail loops past a large rock outcropping and back to the forest road.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • If he was tossed over one of the outcroppings, that would be bad.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The barge struck a rocky outcropping that ripped a 12-foot-by-2-foot gash in its hull.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • But on this night, the tanker charged into the rocky outcropping of Bligh Reef.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Moss covers the rock outcroppings, the gnarled and twisted root of the hemlocks and the boulders in the stream.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • Icy outcroppings rose like fangs out of a pink-rimmed sky.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Some of the yards have rocky outcroppings, while others come with views of the Hudson.
    — Brooke Lea Foster, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The trail winds down to the bottom of the impressive outcroppings that meet the marsh grass and water.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • White sand, bright blue water, and rocky outcroppings greet you on the shore.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The 3-mile roundtrip hike to Teutonia Peak, a rocky outcropping atop the dome, is one of the preserve’s best.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Kinloch Lodge is a small country manor set on a hilly outcropping on the Isle of Skye.
    — David Coggins, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The Potomac is at the heart of the town’s history and the rugged stone outcroppings that overlook the river give the town its name.
    — Tom Peterson, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The video shows the two men shoving sandstone chunks over the edge of an outcropping as someone else screams.
    — Noah Osborne, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Pacific Ocean spreads wide in front of you, with rocky outcroppings jutting from the shore.
    — Matt Pentz, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
  • From up above, the man could tell that the boat had crashed into the jetty, an outcropping of rocks that extends from the shore into the ocean.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The zoo is large and jungly, with a big lagoon where the spider monkeys romp in the trees, and rocky outcroppings for the tigers and lions.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Use the mouse to move a limb, then test if your fingers or toes can hold onto an outcropping's thin ledge.
    — Justin Hall, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2003
  • The coastal retreat has a red mansard roof and three towers, and looks out on granite outcroppings.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Rocky outcroppings appeared in the northwest bay of White Bear.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • The safe play is iron or rescue club; the fun play is trying to slot a driver between a hillside on the left and rock outcroppings on the right.
    — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Golden windows into the past Not all the pieces of amber are tiny at this outcropping in Ain Dara.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 28 June 2024
  • He was buried among the granite outcroppings of the Dragoon Mountains in an area now known as Cochise Stronghold.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The trail takes visitors over some huge rock outcroppings with tremendous views of the marsh and Long Island Sound.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Between the towns there are rice fields, limestone outcroppings, and repeat patterns of oil palms that stretch as far as the eye can see.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
  • The man became stranded by the tide at Hug Point, an outcropping inside a state recreation site of the same name, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Still, the geochemists are able to take a half-dozen water samples from around the outcropping Klein identified on the map, and deeper on the ocean floor.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Set on a rocky outcropping on the western shores of San Juan Island, the compact day-use park operates a seasonal interpretive center, generally open from late spring through the summer.
    — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2023

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