Sentence examples similar to abrupt escarpment from inspiring English sources

As the block was uplifted the abrupt, east-facing escarpment was cut into by the erosive action of wind, rain, temperature change, frost, and ice, and a series of steep-gradient canyons developed.

The boundary between the two zones is commonly demarcated by an abrupt, seaward-facing escarpment.

On its eastern, or seaward, side the Blue Ridge descends in an abrupt and sometimes spectacular escarpment to the Piedmont, a well-drained, rolling land never quite hills, but never quite a plain.

They are standing on the escarpment, by a sharp drop.

escarpment -- n.

Very abrupt," she says.

"It was very abrupt.

He was very abrupt.

An abrupt stop.

Abrupt changes can be risky.

• Abrupt changes in air pressure.