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How to use promontory in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Promontory means a high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff. Example: “The land shoots into a promontory.”

Examples of promontory by meaning

nounA high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.

  • South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands.1970, Ken Fitzgerald, The Space Age Photographic Atlas, Crown Publishers, page 196

More sentences with promontory

  • The land shoots into a promontory.From the entry shoot
  • Here is alpine country at its best, complete with lakes and tarns set amid truly rugged promontories.2013, Gordon Sullivan, Cathie Sullivan, Photographing Montana: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them, Woodstock, Vt.: The…. From the entry tarn
  • From the promontory, their gaze encompassed the entire mouth of the Boyer River.2007, Martine Desjardins, A Covenant of Salt, Talonbooks, page 79. From the entry romp
  • This steepness was intensified on all sides by an artificial intrenchment which divided the promontory from the mainland.1928, Edith Heal, Robin Hood, Rand McNally & Company, pages 31–2. From the entry intrenchment
  • The counterpart to hydronymy is oronymy, that is, the names of all "uplift" features, such as mountains, hills, capes, promontories, and rocks.1975, George Rippey Stewart, Names on the globe, page 13. From the entry oronymy
  • At the foot of the promontory on which stands Peng Lai Temple is the little Christian Church of Water City, a suburb of Teng-chou.1922 July, “The Eighty-fifth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America…. From the entry meridian
  • We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory.1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in Arizona Nights. From the entry high country
  • They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 298. From the entry chhatri
  • The camp we were at was called Pedit-al-le-soers, in the continent of Dubller - a crinkle-coastlined promontory that stretched a thousand kilometres out from the main northern continent of Ast-la-Cox.2010, Adam Roberts, Stone. From the entry coastlined

Meaning of promontory

  1. noun A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
  2. noun A projection on the sacrum.
  3. noun A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.

Full definition of promontory

Questions about promontory in a sentence

How do you use promontory in a sentence?
Promontory is used as a noun. For example: “The land shoots into a promontory.”
What is a short sentence with promontory?
“The land shoots into a promontory.”
What does promontory mean?
Promontory means a high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.

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