Sentence examples for base of a cliff from inspiring English sources

One is a ramp that leads to Bennett Avenue, which runs along the base of a cliff at the bottom of the park.

Jeffers seems, in his poetry, no more capable of insincerity than some boulder lying at the base of a cliff -- and equally incapable, alas, of play and lightness.

Nearby, a bleached rib cage, lying supine and polished as if posed in a diorama, rested untouched at the base of a cliff.

The gunmen launched their attack about 8 45 a.m. as tourists were arriving in buses at the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, a stunning sandstone edifice at the base of a cliff near Luxor's world-renowned Valley of the Kings.

Printed and framed to suave perfection, they include images of a mounted cowboy silhouetted against the sun and a view of a pointy rocky mountain with the tiny, faraway figure of a horse and rider near the base of a cliff.

This is the case in New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and East Africa; however, in parts of the tropical Andes, single species of Polylepis (of the rose family) often grow at altitudes above all other trees, especially on screes (rock debris that has accumulated at the base of a cliff).

At the base of a low cliff the wind no longer blew, but snow fell heavily on lichenous rock".

When sand on a barrier island is washed into the lagoon behind it, or when the base of a beachfront cliff erodes and the bluff slumps down to the water's edge, the beach, is, in effect, moving to higher ground inland.

At 4,025ft 1227mm) above sea level and overlooking a deep valley, the opening is at the base of a steep cliff.

Two years ago, a chunk of rock on the Welsh coast plummeted to the base of a sea cliff where it should have been taken out to sea again, until two men stumbled upon it.

The tiny snails were found in a sample of soil at the base of a limestone cliff in Guangxi, just north of Vietnam.