rock face
Example Sentences
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His treatment of the Troll Wall in Norway, Europe’s highest rock face and the cliff Sasha is scaling when the film commences, is a hallucination that turns the world upside down.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Mr Harris was found on Wednesday under snow at the foot of a rock face on Carè Alto mountain near Trento.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025
In 1972, the community of Naters blasted a path into a steep rock face to offer the herders and sheep an alternative way home.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
In recent years, blind athletes have run astonishingly fast marathons, scaled the towering sheer rock face of Yosemite’s El Capitan and climbed the “Seven Summits,” the highest peaks on each continent.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023
The man in black was hanging in space, clinging to the sheer rock face, seven hundred feet above the water.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
