rock face
Example Sentences
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His treatment of the Troll Wall in Norway, Europe’s highest rock face and the cliff Sasha is scaling when the film commences, is a hallucination that turns the world upside down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
In 1972, the community of Naters blasted a path into a steep rock face to offer the herders and sheep an alternative way home.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Down the fjord at historian Astor Furseth’s home, I see a chunk carved out of the rock face from the famous 56-foot Tafjord tsunami that killed 41 in 1934.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 20, 2023
Yet still they moved slowly, like climbers on a rock face, first some and then others taking their turn to cross the same piece of ground.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
