promontoryin a sentence
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can see it from Promontory Point
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The castle looms up on a craggy promontory above the North Sea.
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a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon
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Redd stood before them on the jagged promontory of Mount Isolation. (source)promontory = a high point of rock that overlooks land at lower elevation
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It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a promontory of rock which formed a calm bay. (source)promontory = a high point that overlooks land at lower elevation
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The goddess on her lonely promontory, her lover dwindling in the distance.† (source)
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Nina looked off in the distance, as if she could see that largest and most impregnable of all the numbers situated on its rocky promontory where for thousands of years it had withstood the onslaughts of fire-breathing dragons and barbarian hordes.† (source)
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The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promontories and snow on their shoulders.† (source)
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For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.† (source)
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Americans watching from a dozen hillsides and promontories around the town could see, as Washington wrote, streets full of "great movements and confusion among the troops night and day ...in hurrying down their cannon, artillery, and other stores to the wharves with utmost precipitation."† (source)
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At the end of the strand their way was blocked by a headland and they left the beach and took an old path up through the dunes and through the dead seaoats until they came out upon a low promontory.† (source)
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Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth.† (source)
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Beyond their buildings the forest thinned, and I saw that we were high on a promontory overlooking the island's windward shore.† (source)
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But now let me ask myself the final question, as I sit over this grey fire, with its naked promontories of black coal, which of these people am I?† (source)
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Later I carried Alpha's body to the promontory where I had buried Tuk so many weeks earlier.† (source)
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In the car, with Dick driving, they followed the little promontories of the lake, catching the burn of light and water in the windshield, tunnelling through cascades of evergreen.† (source)
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