How to Use outcrop in a Sentence

outcrop

1 of 2 noun

• The outcrop is 20 feet tall and can be seen to the left of the rover.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
• Near the outcrop, trees grow closer and taller, and the air cools.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Look for shell bottom or rock outcrops to catch the sheepshead.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 29 Nov. 2019
• Obeid was laid to rest on a rocky outcrop of land overlooking the camp.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
• For a closer look, hike upstream and around the big rock outcrop that lines its bank.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
• An aerial view of the Grotte Mandrin outcrop in the Rhône Valley.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• The woman signaled toward a rocky outcrop in the straits.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2019
• Looking west from Waimea Bay in Hawaii, past the palm trees and the outcrops of lava rock, to the Pacific.
  — Francesca Babb, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2019
• Stay at one of 30 walk-in campsites scattered amid oak trees and mossy outcrops.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
• First a deep blue pool beneath a granite outcrop that led up and away from the river.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• The trek took me to an outcrop of reddish sandstone that held the bones of the predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus.
  — Gerald Herbert, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
• In good news for the U.K. however, Spain says now is not the time to try to win sovereignty of the rocky outcrop that was ceded to Britain in 1713.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Six miles of trails crisscross the upland part of the park, while the eastern end of the ocean beach has a bedrock outcrop deeply scratched by the last receding glacier.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• The stone house, typical of the region, sits at the top of a gravel outcrop close to forests, marshlands and fields of grazing cows.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2022
• Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soaring rocky outcrop.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• The original team worked with the face of the rock outcrop, but the new group managed to saw out a block of rock for a three-dimensional view.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
• A few days into the trip, McCarthy used a hammer and chisel to break small chunks of the paleosols away from the outcrop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• O’Donoghue estimates that up to a third of the town’s herring and blue whiting catch comes from the 19-kilometer area around the outcrop.
  — Greg Noone, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
• Above to our left, a massive volcanic outcrop, 9,193-foot Green Butte, rose into a gray sky.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• And all the artifacts were made of black slate from an outcrop less than half a mile from the excavation site.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• An ~25 foot thick outcrop of the Osceola Mudflow from Mt. Rainier.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2022
• The departing migrants’ friends from the camp had gathered on a nearby rocky outcrop to wave them off.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• The rocky outcrop resembles the Tuscan mountain of La Verna, where, near the end of his life, Francis went to fast for 40 days.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• New photographs show the pair walking through the snow along a rocky outcrop that production appears to have built for the scene.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
• This small outcrop, around 90 miles south of Odessa, was among the first parts of Ukraine to come under Russian fire when the invasion began.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• But many dismissed his theories, and said the shape was just a rocky outcrop on a barren mountain.
  — Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Out of this display, on a sloping outcrop of rock, a tiny hawksbill headed up from the abyss, nibbling at the brilliant coral.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
• Stay at the gleaming new ten-room Asilia Jabali Ridge, which is set on a rocky outcrop that overlooks the reserve.
  — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2018
• Dutton and her colleagues performed the same careful analysis for each part of the outcrop.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The animal found inside the outcrop averaged about a meter (about 3 feet) in length with a long snout and tail and thin rows of delicate teeth.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

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outcrop

2 of 2 verb

• Perched on an outcropping at 3,000 feet, his Desert View Tower is the only structure for miles.
  — Kevin Brass, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
• Shovels and Rope is a cool rockabilly outcropping of that movement.
  — NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Keep reading here, as Brannen explores the geological record of that moment: a rock outcropping in central Wyoming.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 11 July 2017
• As my friend’s words about the sublime subtleties of the discoveries made during her experience played through my mind, Beno raised a eucalyptus branch like a pointer toward a massive stone outcropping 20 yards ahead.
  — Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• The petroglyphs were rediscovered after an 1881 wildfire devastated much of the region and burned off the vegetation that had covered the sandstone outcropping.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
• Perched on an outcropping at 3,000 feet, his Desert View Tower is the only structure for miles.
  — Kevin Brass, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
• Shovels and Rope is a cool rockabilly outcropping of that movement.
  — NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Keep reading here, as Brannen explores the geological record of that moment: a rock outcropping in central Wyoming.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 11 July 2017
• As my friend’s words about the sublime subtleties of the discoveries made during her experience played through my mind, Beno raised a eucalyptus branch like a pointer toward a massive stone outcropping 20 yards ahead.
  — Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• The petroglyphs were rediscovered after an 1881 wildfire devastated much of the region and burned off the vegetation that had covered the sandstone outcropping.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017

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