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
Milkman became agile, pulling himself up the rock face, digging his knees into crevices, searching with his fingers for solid earth patches or ledges of stone.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
