How to Use outcropping in a Sentence

outcropping

noun
  • If he was tossed over one of the outcroppings, that would be bad.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The pair sought refuge in the shade of a rock outcropping and hatched a plan.
    — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The trail loops past a large rock outcropping and back to the forest road.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The low-hanging clouds touched the rock outcroppings on top of the ridge.
    — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • White sand, bright blue water, and rocky outcroppings greet you on the shore.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There are rolling hills, sandstone outcroppings and dense forests of oak, mesquite and elm trees.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • These are hard data outcroppings from a seething sea of online hate.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • There are rock outcroppings on Palmyra Peak that are in your way on the way down.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The barge struck a rocky outcropping that ripped a 12-foot-by-2-foot gash in its hull.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • Use the mouse to move a limb, then test if your fingers or toes can hold onto an outcropping's thin ledge.
    — Justin Hall, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2003
  • The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The coastal retreat has a red mansard roof and three towers, and looks out on granite outcroppings.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Some of the yards have rocky outcroppings, while others come with views of the Hudson.
    — Brooke Lea Foster, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But on this night, the tanker charged into the rocky outcropping of Bligh Reef.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The video shows the two men shoving sandstone chunks over the edge of an outcropping as someone else screams.
    — Noah Osborne, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Craggy outcroppings rise from the golden slopes and oak groves of a hill where cows graze on a solitary ranch.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • The trail winds down to the bottom of the impressive outcroppings that meet the marsh grass and water.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • Moss covers the rock outcroppings, the gnarled and twisted root of the hemlocks and the boulders in the stream.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • Then spectacular skies, and outcroppings of rocks covered in plush moss, and a long, deep crevice.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The rocky outcropping is on the Whitaker Point Trail, a three-mile roundtrip hike.
    — USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • The terrain — thick jack pines and swamp that gave way to small bushes, rock outcroppings, and thick caribou moss — made for quite a climb.
    — Jim Tappan, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Rocky outcroppings appeared in the northwest bay of White Bear.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • Some sandy stretches and rocky outcroppings may be harder to navigate.
    — Heema Patel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The outcropping is 190 feet high and known as the King and Queen Seat.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
  • Between the towns there are rice fields, limestone outcroppings, and repeat patterns of oil palms that stretch as far as the eye can see.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
  • Nothing except for the flint outcropping at Dishon would have supplied enough stone for more than a few tools.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2023
  • From up above, the man could tell that the boat had crashed into the jetty, an outcropping of rocks that extends from the shore into the ocean.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Kinloch Lodge is a small country manor set on a hilly outcropping on the Isle of Skye.
    — David Coggins, CNT, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The Pacific Ocean spreads wide in front of you, with rocky outcroppings jutting from the shore.
    — Matt Pentz, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017

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