promontory
Example Sentences
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Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The city occupies a promontory overlooking the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan and was first recorded in the early 2000s.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025
A Turkish sponge diver in 1982 first reported spotting “metal biscuits with ears” off a rocky promontory known as Uluburun.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Native Americans built their villages across this promontory, and Malaga Cove has been a settlement for at least seven millennia.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
