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
A photogenic patch of Yosemite Valley, with the soaring rock face of El Capitan in the background, had become his personal TV studio.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
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
Down the fjord at historian Astor Furseth’s home, I see a chunk carved out of the rock face from the famous 56-foot Tafjord tsunami that killed 41 in 1934.
From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023
With his wide stance and his grippy feet, the crab could crawl up and down any rock face.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
