escarpment
Example Sentences
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One reason Hill Country gets powerful downpours is the Balcones Escarpment.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
He is lab director at Escarpment Labs in Ontario, Canada.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023
High up in the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, West Africa, lies a host of abandoned cities that resemble the Anasazi cliff dwellings of New Mexico.
From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020
The path was more like a service road, but after five minutes we arrived at the spacious, grassy Escarpment.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2018
With my hands in my pocket and my head bowed, I take the road to the Helderberg Escarpment and to the water that spills eight hundred feet.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing escarpment
The Pearl
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