How to Use escarpment in a Sentence

escarpment

noun

• See and hike through a few along the 2-mile Eagle Trail, which traces the 150-foot cliffs of the escarpment along Green Bay.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2022
• The road heaved, and the bus emerged from a gap in an escarpment into a parched emptiness of plain that stretched to the end of vision.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• It had been carved through an escarpment, forming a deep chasm with tall rocky cliffs on both sides.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• These Australian falls drop over a rocky escarpment to the earth 656 feet below.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2021
• The priest looked across the waters and saw São Miguel up ahead, a line of shacks rising upon an escarpment.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• In the Hottentots Holland mountain range this month, the revs of their chain saws echoed down the escarpment.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The main wreckage was found perched on a 2,500-foot escarpment within a mile of the western park entrance.
  — Charlie Zaharoff, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2014
• There’s a hiking path connecting the escarpment, which draws lots of tourists for the view, to the lake below, which tends to be less crowded.
  — Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• The fragile escarpment threatened to make a ruin of the ruins.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Emerald-green estates stretch as far as the eye can see, hugging the western escarpment of the Rift Valley.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Since 2018, restoration work has been under way in Regio V to reshape and shore up the escarpment.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• The lodge sits on top of the Oloololo escarpment, overlooking the Mara Triangle, and is comprised of two camps.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• A rainbow over El Capitan along the western escarpment of the Guadalupe Mountains.
  — Brian Romans, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2007
• Swifts dipped and dove overhead as the setting sun silhouetted an escarpment on the other side of the river.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Now, she is immortalized in the rocks of Mercury, a crater with a giant rift escarpment running straight across it.
  — Kim Stanley Robinson, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
• On the jagged cliffs below the Mogollon Rim, dozens of springs dispense water that filters through the porous limestone escarpments.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 26 July 2019
• The same goes for the fields of California poppies that can be seen from highways where once-brown escarpments are covered with swaths of orange.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
• What remains are mostly tiny and tricky lots like 1490, which faces onto a subway viaduct and is partly taken up by a rock escarpment.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Yes, there will be crowds, but this extraordinary escarpment is a must-see.
  — Serena Renner, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
• The great rock escarpments have been shaped by eons of wind into phantasmagorical shapes.
  — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
• On the other side of the peninsula, the busier Cave Point County Park also has trails along the escarpment, whose white cliffs are smaller here and give the water a tropical blue-green hue.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2017
• Mehrangarh Fort, looming on the escarpment above us, figures in one of the creation stories of modern ecology.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Vineyards stretch for miles in orderly lines, nourished by the Colorado River and the daytime warmth that bounces off a 250-mile-long escarpment known as the Book Cliffs before giving way to cool nights.
  — Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2021
• Even in the dead of winter, the property is stunning, with its undulating textures of ridges, glades and limestone escarpments.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Jan. 2020
• The escarpment, nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge for the treacherously steep cliff, was key to winning the battle of Okinawa.
  — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2022
• At one point Saturday afternoon, a fire whirl was reported at the southern end of Constantia Road as the fire backed down an escarpment.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• Today, a section of Franklin Boulevard that descends the slope is buckling in the middle, where the underlying escarpment edges the unstable portion of the hillside.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2021
• The contrasting landscapes here, including coral coastlines, vast floodplains, rocky escarpments, and the ochre sands of the outback, are astounding.
  — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• Eagle-eyed excavators spotted a couple of leg bones sticking out of the edge of an escarpment; a prior excavation had chopped the skeleton off at the feet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2021
• Across the North Carolina mountains, there were hundreds of those dots, many of them clustered diagonally along the Blue Ridge escarpment, where steep slopes signal the mountains’ rise.
  — Andrew Carter and Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024