headland

Example Sentences

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The sections ranged from steep, rocky headlands and bluffs to wide, low-lying alluvial valleys where rivers flow into the bay.

From Scientific American

In New Zealand, the spirits of the dead leap off the headland at Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife.

From Washington Post

Rip currents are the fast moving water that flows in channels between sandbanks on a beach and along headlands.

From BBC

The bill gives Oregon authority to draft rules regulating where pilots can take off and land with a drone on the ocean beaches, headlands and all other state parks.

From Seattle Times

Paul Russell, professor of coastal dynamics at the University of Plymouth, said the Cribbar's shifting peaks were created by a scattering of reefs off the end of the headland.

From BBC