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
According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin's body hanging upside down from a rock face.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024
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
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
