A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
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Examples for "escarpment "
Examples for "escarpment "
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.
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 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.
6 Will you take this miserable scarp for what it is worth?
7 The salvation of his scheme was the farmers on the scarp of the Berg.
8 The smooth and glimmering scarp fell thousands of feet straight to the valley floor.
9 G H the scarp or interior wall of the ditch.
10 A pale, level line of it cut across the scarp of the Big Hill.
11 He watched the bird fly over the scarp ahead and he sighed with envy.
12 A normal fault with a hade of 15 degrees, the original fault scarp remaining.
13 The creek continued to the edge and dropped down the face of the scarp .
14 They were staring at an old black man standing on a nearby lunar scarp .
15 He said it is difficult to forecast trends for iron ore and scarp prices globally.
16 The diameter from scarp to scarp , sixty feet; diameter of inner circular court, thirty-six feet.
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