Sentence examples for Rock from inspiring English sources
In Cappadocia, the thrill of hurtling along a trail on two wheels is amplified by its otherworldly landscape of rock pillars, known as "fairy chimneys", many reaching more than 40 metres high, as well as its cave houses and ancient Byzantine churches.
They are split by dizzying ravines, which are, in turn, often overhung with imposing bulwarks of rock.
A cliff-top bar features thrones carved out of stone, gazing out over crashing waves next to a swimming pool perched on the edge of a sheer rock face, while steps lead down to a private sandy beach.
To climb in this fashion a climber will hammer a peg (or "piton") into a crack, wedge chocks – pieces of metal of various sizes and shapes – into it or place a skyhook (a very small grappling hook) over flakes of rock and edges.
The term "big wall" is generally used by climbers to describe some of the world's longest climbs – usually predominantly on rock involving up to 30 rope lengths, and on which most climbers would expect to spend days climbing.
The prices match the outrageous history though: rooms from $415 plus tax to $4,500, +1 323 656 1010, chateaumarmont.com "I am a Golden God!" It is 1975, the height of rock's heyday, and Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's debonair vocalist, declares his rock star status from his hotel balcony.
A narrow scramble, no wider than a sheep track, edged over the heaps of waste rock towards a larch wood within a ferny, stone wall.
Reading festival, 2000, and on the main stage one of the most punk-rock performances in living memory is taking place.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has defiantly vowed to repair the rock-bottom reputation of world football's governing body, refusing to quit over the worst corruption scandal in its 111-year history.
Now, Ashley and Natalie are held up as proponents of a moral decay in black Britain, also represented by Yardies, mobile phone thefts and rock-bottom school results.
Our base was Herdade da Nespereira, a beautiful 600-acre estate of uncultivated land covered in rock-rose, eucalyptus and wild flowers 13km inland from Zambujeira.
