How to Use outcrop in a Sentence

outcrop

1 of 2 noun
  • Look for shell bottom or rock outcrops to catch the sheepshead.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Near the outcrop, trees grow closer and taller, and the air cools.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The outcrop is 20 feet tall and can be seen to the left of the rover.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Obeid was laid to rest on a rocky outcrop of land overlooking the camp.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
  • For a closer look, hike upstream and around the big rock outcrop that lines its bank.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
  • First a deep blue pool beneath a granite outcrop that led up and away from the river.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • One of my team members spotted a low rocky outcrop at distance.
    — Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Cross the bay by ferry as the infamous prison emerges, perched on its rocky outcrop.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Stay at one of 30 walk-in campsites scattered amid oak trees and mossy outcrops.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • Out of sight, on its own jagged outcrop of granite rocks, stands ‘The House’.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • These routes connect to the concrete pads, which are nestled among rocky outcrops and dry creekbeds.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 29 May 2026
  • Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soaring rocky outcrop.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But many dismissed his theories, and said the shape was just a rocky outcrop on a barren mountain.
    — Fox News, 19 May 2017
  • One wrong turn and the hint of a trail can begin to blend with remote ridgelines and rough outcrops cast alike by a setting sun.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And all the artifacts were made of black slate from an outcrop less than half a mile from the excavation site.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
  • The departing migrants’ friends from the camp had gathered on a nearby rocky outcrop to wave them off.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • The sand, which makes up over 70% of glass, could come from a faraway riverbed, lakeshore or inland limestone outcrop.
    — Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Dutton and her colleagues performed the same careful analysis for each part of the outcrop.
    — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In the distance, a young bride posed on a rocky red outcrop, one leg bare, gown piled at her feet like sea foam, as her photographer snapped away.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • New photographs show the pair walking through the snow along a rocky outcrop that production appears to have built for the scene.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The trek took me to an outcrop of reddish sandstone that held the bones of the predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus.
    — Gerald Herbert, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Prior to snapping its selfie, the rover had just finished abrading the rocky Arethusa outcrop.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 May 2026
  • But the signs were promising, with the filter-feeder’s usual food plentiful along the rocky outcrops.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The stone house, typical of the region, sits at the top of a gravel outcrop close to forests, marshlands and fields of grazing cows.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Fanad Head Lighthouse sits on a rocky outcrop, and whales, porpoises, and dolphins pass by.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The original team worked with the face of the rock outcrop, but the new group managed to saw out a block of rock for a three-dimensional view.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The festival, held on an outcrop that extends northwest from the island, draws larger crowds every year.
    — Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Brielle, Karri, and Nunu wander among the limestone outcrops and sandstone spires.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Brielle, Karri, and Nunu wander among the limestone outcrops and sandstone spires.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Brielle, Karri, and Nunu wander among the limestone outcrops and sandstone spires.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2025

outcrop

2 of 2 verb
  • Shovels and Rope is a cool rockabilly outcropping of that movement.
    — NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Magnetic anomalies abounded in the ancient natural world, where a lightning strike on a rock outcropping was much more likely than today.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • At its far end, the valley is enclosed by red sandstone cliffs—rock walls, towers, and outcrops the size of office buildings, smoothed and sculpted by millennia of wind and water.
    — Stanley Stewart, Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Perched on an outcropping at 3,000 feet, his Desert View Tower is the only structure for miles.
    — Kevin Brass, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Because it is situated on a limestone outcropping on the ridge of a tectonic plate, the soil contains ancient seabeds and a rich combination of minerals.
    — Patricia Cohen Violette Franchi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • This exclusive, discrete resort (no photos allowed) consists of a series of bungalows set around a private lagoon, whose waters are protected from the waves by a rock outcropping dotted with deluxe beach chairs.
    — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • As my friend’s words about the sublime subtleties of the discoveries made during her experience played through my mind, Beno raised a eucalyptus branch like a pointer toward a massive stone outcropping 20 yards ahead.
    — Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • The reefs that outcropped in Johannesburg extend deep underground, making up part of the Witwatersrand basin, a geological formation that stretches in an arc two hundred and fifty miles long.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The petroglyphs were rediscovered after an 1881 wildfire devastated much of the region and burned off the vegetation that had covered the sandstone outcropping.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
  • While the iron boat badly deteriorated badly over the century it's been exposed to the elements, the scow has remained tightly fixed to a rock outcropping since August 1918.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019

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