Sentence examples for point of land from inspiring English sources

The French, who defeated a group of Fox and Sauk Indians in the Grosse Pointe Park area (1712), established ribbon farms along the swampy shore that became part of Grosse Pointe township (organized in 1848 and named for a point of land projecting into the lake).

The highest point of land in Denmark is 564 feet.

On the second day, the sealers followed walruses around a point of land.

Look at a point of land over which the sun is certain to rise, Coleridge said.

They headed for Johnston Atoll, 700 miles southest & the nearest point of land to Hawaii.

In 1927, the Privy Council fixed Labrador's inland border on the watershed (or the highest point of land) between the Atlantic Ocean and the Hudson Bay.

The delay is measured as the number of hours lost at the point of landing.

"We were coming through the Lincoln Tunnel on our way back from New Jersey to New York, at the point of landing".

As they approach the rocky point of Lands End, they pass over a strange instrument, known as a wave recorder, lying on the sea bottom.

A casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the whole point of landing the job as the S.E.C.'s director of enforcement is to position oneself for the better paying one on Wall Street.

With its three lighthouses, racing tides and air of being at the end of the known world, the Bill makes a natural destination for tour buses, ramblers and ornithologists, as it's the first point of landing for millions of migrating birds.