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 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
• Various grasses and succulents will blanket the tunnels, and the bluff leading down toward the water will be covered in native shrubs and grasses like those seen atop other escarpments along the edge of the bay.
  — Nate Berg, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2016
• Researchers figured that out by taking a closer look at two S. ensidens fossils that were unearthed from a Wyoming escarpment in 1871.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024