A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
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Examples for "scarp "
Examples for "scarp "
1 We have the police ready all along the scarp of the Berg.
2 Elaine had followed to the scarp , where she watched till he disappeared.
3 The fracture event exposed bare ice on the surface of the steep scarp .
4 A portion of the scarp was provided with palisades some ten feet high.
5 Writer visits the world's largest pile of scarp tires in Stanislaus County, California.
1 The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp .
2 The ladders were immediately seized by their comrades, who, after one or two vain attempts, succeeded in placing them against the escarp .
3 The smooth and verdant escarp of the river-berg guided us, while the river itself was sometimes at hand and sometimes four miles off.
4 It placed one ladder, by which the General descended into the ditch, and was, it is said, the first up the escarp of the work.
5 He discovered D'Hérouville leaning against a cannon, contemplating the escarps and bastions of the citadel.
1 The Fu River in Jiangxi province burst through a protective embankment late yesterday, threatening the nearby city of Fuzhou.
2 The Fu River in Jiangxi province burst through a protective embankment late on Monday, threatening the nearby city of Fuzhou.
1 Mpumalanga: Temperature: Fine and cool but cold in places along the escarpment .
2 Limpopo: Morning fog patches along the escarpment , otherwise partly cloudy and warm.
3 Limpopo: Morning fog patches over the escarpment , otherwise partly cloudy and warm.
4 Way back to her left a shadow was rising above the escarpment .
5 Limpopo: Morning fog over the southern escarpment , otherwise partly cloudy and hot.
6 The view from the top of South Africa's highest escarpment is breathtaking.
7 Drizzle and light rain is expected in places south of the escarpment .
8 Severe thunderstorms are expected over the Highveld and escarpment areas of Mpumalanga.
9 Morning fog patches are expected on the Highveld and along the escarpment .
10 It will be cool in places along the escarpment and eastern Highveld.
11 Rain and showers are expected across the escarpment in the Eastern Cape.
12 It will become cloudy with fog along the escarpment in the evening.
13 A free-for-all of pits and caves along the base of the escarpment .
14 Only a few stunted trees remained between them and the rocky escarpment .
15 You might see buzzards and ravens wheeling and tumbling above the escarpment .
16 The escarpment consisted of a spine of hills and promontories and peaks.
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Escarpment в диалектах
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