Sentence examples for escarpment I from inspiring English sources

Plateau, extensive area of flat upland usually bounded by an escarpment (i.e., steep slope) on all sides but sometimes enclosed by mountains.

Looking down from the escarpment, I saw what was being called Identity Stretch sprawled majestically across several acres of the spoils field.

As we picked our way through the forest, the horses scrambling up rocky escarpments, I envied Bertrand's life and the ease with which he managed both horses and dogs.

Cockburn Escarpment At the outdoor bar, I'm tapping away at my netbook when another very drunk Aussie lurches over, eyes swimming in booze.

As my wife, Juanita, and I drove along the escarpment, there were no signs of human habitation.

Deschamps and Lallemand (2002) showed that magnetic lineations trend N-S north of the Oki-Daito escarpment (ODE, Figs. 1 and 2), i.e., perpendicular to the main trend on both sides of the CBF rift.

I loved the ride along the escarpment – the grand views towards the Cambrian mountains, the rows of beech trees leading to old farmsteads, the unpronounceable poetry of the place names.

I gave her challenges, like patrolling through the escarpment.

Which actually was only last month when I spent a week riding across the Drakensberg Escarpment in South Africa.

Here I have an office on the edge of an escarpment in northern Ethiopia.

Early on a Saturday morning I secured a coveted counter stool and scaled an escarpment of peanut-butter-and-banana pancakes with bacon drippings, along with a vat of strong coffee while chatting it up with Carman about New York City, local eccentrics who eat there, and her truck.