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

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

It was not long before a familiar black shape edged around the headland towards the beach we had chosen as a likely place for boats to launch.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 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

A big round gray rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath