promontory
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Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The city occupies a promontory overlooking the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan and was first recorded in the early 2000s.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025
A Turkish sponge diver in 1982 first reported spotting “metal biscuits with ears” off a rocky promontory known as Uluburun.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
A whaling station briefly operated here, and by the 20th century, the cattle that once grazed the promontory had long vanished, but the people kept coming.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
The next night, after he had visited Cadiz, he had things he could tell her, too—about the city of stone, built on a rocky promontory, jutting out into the blue sea.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing promontory
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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