How to Use escarpment in a Sentence

escarpment

noun
  • This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • It had been carved through an escarpment, forming a deep chasm with tall rocky cliffs on both sides.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • It was built of a tough wood that only grew along a small escarpment near the village.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The tents are perched on top of escarpment with views of the TK below.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • The road heaved, and the bus emerged from a gap in an escarpment into a parched emptiness of plain that stretched to the end of vision.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Tries a first flight from the escarpment, a learner breeze across the valley, and realises – wow!
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, there will be crowds, but this extraordinary escarpment is a must-see.
    — Serena Renner, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • The fragile escarpment threatened to make a ruin of the ruins.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • These Australian falls drop over a rocky escarpment to the earth 656 feet below.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The great rock escarpments have been shaped by eons of wind into phantasmagorical shapes.
    — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
  • The priest looked across the waters and saw São Miguel up ahead, a line of shacks rising upon an escarpment.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a hiking path connecting the escarpment, which draws lots of tourists for the view, to the lake below, which tends to be less crowded.
    — Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Swifts dipped and dove overhead as the setting sun silhouetted an escarpment on the other side of the river.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In the Hottentots Holland mountain range this month, the revs of their chain saws echoed down the escarpment.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Now, she is immortalized in the rocks of Mercury, a crater with a giant rift escarpment running straight across it.
    — Kim Stanley Robinson, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
  • The main wreckage was found perched on a 2,500-foot escarpment within a mile of the western park entrance.
    — Charlie Zaharoff, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2014
  • Emerald-green estates stretch as far as the eye can see, hugging the western escarpment of the Rift Valley.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The same goes for the fields of California poppies that can be seen from highways where once-brown escarpments are covered with swaths of orange.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The projects were to span nearly 40 linear miles on Black Mesa’s northeastern escarpment.
    — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Even in the dead of winter, the property is stunning, with its undulating textures of ridges, glades and limestone escarpments.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Even in summer, evenings turn crisp, drawing locals and visitors alike outdoors to sip tea as the sun slips behind the escarpment and the mountain exhales its cool.
    — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
  • What remains are mostly tiny and tricky lots like 1490, which faces onto a subway viaduct and is partly taken up by a rock escarpment.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Mehrangarh Fort, looming on the escarpment above us, figures in one of the creation stories of modern ecology.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Since 2018, restoration work has been under way in Regio V to reshape and shore up the escarpment.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • On the jagged cliffs below the Mogollon Rim, dozens of springs dispense water that filters through the porous limestone escarpments.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 26 July 2019
  • The lodge sits on top of the Oloololo escarpment, overlooking the Mara Triangle, and is comprised of two camps.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The national park promises epic escarpments, striking rock formations, and breathtaking bush walks less than an hour west of Sydney by car.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024
  • As the sun dropped and the temperature fell, Scarabeo Roches Noires emerged on the horizon, a small cluster of white tents perched on a rocky escarpment.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 30 Jan. 2026
  • See and hike through a few along the 2-mile Eagle Trail, which traces the 150-foot cliffs of the escarpment along Green Bay.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2022
  • For a break from the bustle, locals head to the Edge of the World, a dramatic escarpment about an hour’s drive from downtown that drops into an endless stretch of desert.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025

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