Sentence examples for imposing cliff from inspiring English sources

It's not hard to see why the ancient Greeks chose to settle in Sicily on this imposing cliff top facing Africa – or to imagine what portents they might have read into the furious display from the gods above.

It also meant that I had to consider the rhythms and cadences of sentences, as certain "difficult' words would be easier to say if I could take a kind of verbal run-up to them... Unlike most people for whom language is a sea in which they swim like fish, for me it was an imposing cliff that I had to climb an inch at a time.

A ridge of chalk hills, the South Downs, runs across the county from east to west, reaching the sea in a line of imposing cliffs, notably at Beachy Head.

Follow the coast south from here and you'll discover a mix of sandy bays, rocky coves and imposing cliffs, dotted with fishing villages and tiny holiday resorts.

Since virtually nobody lives on what residents call the back of the island — the imposing cliffs whose shade helps produce high-quality dulse — just about all the houses and businesses are close to the one main road, officially New Brunswick Route 776, which runs from North Head through Grand Harbour to Seal Cove.

Since virtually nobody lives on what residents call the back of the island the imposing cliffs whose shade helps produce high-quality dulse just about all the houses and businesses are close to the one main road, officially New Brunswick Route 776, which runs from North Head through Grand Harbour to Seal Cove.

Its terrain is marked by deep basins and imposing cliffs, but even relatively flat surfaces contain boulders and fractures that could spell doom for a spacecraft.

Thirty kilometres away lies Fjällbacka, a beautiful, increasingly des res village of clapperboard fishermen's huts and cottages, set beneath an imposing granite cliff and perched on a wide tranquil bay dotted with rounded skerries that float into the horizon like thought bubbles.

Volcanic in origin, the islands are scattered over the water in roughly the shape of an arrowhead, erupting out of the sea in imposing basalt cliffs.

So in Tbilisi, protesters have been chucking carrots at President Mikhail Saakashvili's office in his new, imposing Chancellery, built on a cliff overlooking the city.

Byala Sea Villa, Byala Sleeps 12 This imposing villa perched on a white cliff affords magnificent views of the Black Sea below.