headland

Example Sentences

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A handwritten label indicated she had been found near the Beachy Head headland sometime in the 1950s, but little additional information was available.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

Gibraltar, which is a British Overseas Territory, is a 2.6 square mile headland to the south of Spain.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

Perhaps he deserves the title “the father of smog,” for he called the place “the bay of smokes,” probably from the signal fires the Native Americans built atop the headland.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

A rust-colored dome looms over the muddy farmland of Hinkley Point, a headland overlooking the Bristol Channel in southwest England.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

I thought of that green sea, foam-flecked, that ran down channel beyond the headland.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier