How to Use outcropping in a Sentence

outcropping

noun

• 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
• There are gravel ramparts and rubble patches and rocky outcroppings, all of which suggest an eventful history of working and reworking by the elements.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024