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

The inexorable wonder-workings of geology — with a fanciful nod to Poseidon, the god of earthquakes and oceans — created that stunning headland that juts its chin out into the Pacific from Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

It was not long before a familiar black shape edged around the headland towards the beach we had chosen as a likely place for boats to launch.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 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

One by one I dug them up and carried them to the headland.

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