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Meanings of clifflike in English

Cliffy.

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      1
      The coast of these inlets is steep and cliffy.
      A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
      2
      He stood a second on the cliffy north wall to look down on the quiet harbor.
      Poor Man's Rock
      3
      At ten and three-quarter miles considerably ridgy, and passed large masses and cliffy hill, apparently of limestone.
      McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
      4
      Then it moved forward again, and passed over the cliffy end of the glacier into the pine-clad valley.
      Last and First Men
      5
      At the upper end of the inlet, its low, cliffy lining sinks, at both sides, into a beach.
      In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
      Usage of clifflike in English
      1
      At this point they rose to a clifflike headland a hundred and fifty feet high, flat on top.
      The Land of Footprints
      2
      There it had a wide mouth with stony clifflike gates at either side whose feet were piled with shingles.
      The hobbit: or there and back again
      3
      On the west of the plain of Champagne rises, 300 feet, with a curious clifflike suddenness, the Plateau of Sézanne.
      The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) / The War Begins,...
      4
      Perpendicular, clifflike walls shut us off from retreat to the land and there was not a possibility of shelter anywhere.
      The Long Labrador Trail
      5
      She studied a computer-generated model of the Marine base, rotating it, judging the clifflike loom of the taller buildings, the openings in between.
      Earth strike: star carrier: book one
      6
      But the warm impulses of neighborhood life, like the cries of the boys at their evening game of baseball, broke unheeded against that clifflike impassivity.
      The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
      7
      His large black eyes sank even deeper beneath a clifflike brow as he studied the opening in the forest below and in front of him.
      Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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