sea cliff
Example Sentences
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While there can be variations, in the South Bay, look for sea cliff buckwheat with clumps of white and pink flowers; rattlepod and deerweed have peapod or bell-shaped green-and-white and yellow-and-red flowers, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Snorkel to a sea cliff, which has a coral reef to one side and a blue abyss on the other, while fish of every color swim by in the turquoise waters.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022
Where the shoreline is rocky, perhaps with a sea cliff, waves refracting around headlands attack the rocks behind the point of the headland.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
A half-hour after we started, we arrived at a 100-foot sea cliff and a view of the Atlantic wide enough that you could detect the curvature of the earth.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
The sea cliff was behind him and they could not reach him from that direction so they were trying to think of some other way.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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