headland

Example Sentences

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A handwritten label indicated she had been found near the Beachy Head headland sometime in the 1950s, but little additional information was available.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

Perhaps he deserves the title “the father of smog,” for he called the place “the bay of smokes,” probably from the signal fires the Native Americans built atop the headland.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

A rust-colored dome looms over the muddy farmland of Hinkley Point, a headland overlooking the Bristol Channel in southwest England.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Others carry a model of the Whitby Wyrm, a dragon-like creature which legend has it used to live on the headland by Whitby Abbey.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

I was glad to be home on the high headland where the waves had not come.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell