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
Who knew that you can start in High Cliff State Park along the Niagara Escarpment and end up in Niagara Falls, New York?
From Fox News • Oct. 14, 2021
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
At the last streetlight on the road out of town, I take out the map with the Helderberg Escarpment on it.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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