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Meanings of promontory in English
Usage of promontory in English
1
We got in and rowed round the promontory and into the caves.
2
Then Beatrice came to the edge of the promontory and called down:
3
This tool is a feasible and reasonable method for promontory stimulation testing.
4
Two hours later, and the promontory was lying to the larboard wake.
5
The word means a fishhook, and the promontory looks something like one.
6
Took boat on the lake, from the promontory of Dindog before mentioned.
7
Then, farther up, the valley seemed to end in a huge promontory.
8
My eyes turned to the Lacinian promontory, dark upon the turbid sea.
9
He reached the clearing, now unguarded, and looked up at the promontory.
10
It was a boxhouse, built on a promontory of the Greenland coast.
11
A railed-in platform capped the promontory, for it was a recognised viewpoint.
12
Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered.
13
Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though
14
I am fair, as when thou didst woo me on the promontory.
15
He scanned the flat promontory, but there was no sign of her.
16
Sabinus pursued them as far as Scyllaeum, the Italian promontory, without trouble.
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Translations for promontory
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Promontory through the time
Promontory across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common