rock face
Example Sentences
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His treatment of the Troll Wall in Norway, Europe’s highest rock face and the cliff Sasha is scaling when the film commences, is a hallucination that turns the world upside down.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin's body hanging upside down from a rock face.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
The team continued searching in a pool below a sheer rock face.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 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
There was only room for them to land one at a time, and then the African riflemen had to make their way down the rock face.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
