rock face
Example Sentences
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El Capitan, with its 3,000-foot-tall rock face, isn’t one of the areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 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
The new specialist netting will help prevent loose stones falling from a fragile rock face measuring 10m high and 100m long above the railway.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 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
Archers camped in caves along the rock face and shot down at anyone attempting to circle around the back of the fort.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
