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Example sentences for "jutting"

Lexicographically close words:
justyce; jute; jutht; juts; jutted; juty; juvat; juvenes; juvenile; juveniles
  1. Half an hour's work brought him to the out-jutting promontory which had concealed the further reaches of the valley.

  2. At length she disappeared behind the jutting profile of a great promontory which formed a main angle of the gorge.

  3. The lake is here reduced to less than half a mile in width, sheltered on all sides from the winds by high promontories, jutting so far into the water, as to appear like a group of islands.

  4. It is a powerful fortress, even against the artillery of to-day, and occupies a commanding position on a promontory jutting out between the Danube and the Save.

  5. Close to us, to port, we passed a big rock that was jutting from the water and over which the long smooth seas washed, foaming with hissing sounds.

  6. Dimly, veiled by the fog curtain, of ghostly outline, a jutting cliff appeared and Sammy luffed slightly.

  7. Before us there rose a thick wood, on a jutting promontory, that looked blue and dark in the shade, as if it wore mourning; while the sunlit stream beyond shone through the trunks and branches, like a river of fire.

  8. The shadows of the houses on the western side were stretched half-way across the pavement, while, on the side opposite, the bright sunshine seemed sleeping on the jutting irregular fronts, and high antique gables.

  9. Conspicuous amongst the places where these stage-like elements abound is the Villa d'Este; situated in a little bay, with two jutting promontories to guard it, the ground offers every possible variety of surface and elevation.

  10. There was a jutting wall where he could stand in the shadow while the man passed.

  11. They had brought some simple food with them, and they laid it behind a jutting bit of rock.

  12. And his rock was a mere up-jutting of the solid floor of shale that was under him.

  13. Swift as the shot itself, he dropped behind the one protection at hand, the up-jutting shoulder of shale.

  14. They were swept towards the jutting point, almost round it, when Nan, flinging forward to the right, caught a slippery ledge of rock with her two hands and held on.

  15. Another minute and he was far away on the ledge of rock jutting out from a high cape--the point of which formed the outlying reef above referred to.

  16. Though little it was a tremendous bay, with mighty cliffs landward, and jutting ledges on either side, and forbidding rocks at the entrance, which waged continual warfare with the great Atlantic billows that rolled into it.

  17. Strange as well as familiar ones--crowds upon crowds of faces.

  18. And six months earlier she had left a German Jew's ornate carnival to drive with a sodden debauchee in a stolen car and had impaled an unknown chauffeur on the grey angle of a jutting wall in Hertfordshire.

  19. These men who were always drinking made a sorry mess of their nerves; Pennington was hardly less incapacitated than Webster had been when they dashed into the jutting grey angle of wall.

  20. They spent an hour doing it, and then, crossing knee-deep, they sat down on a ledge of jutting rock while Weston laid out a simple meal.

  21. Ida took the rod from him, and a little thrill of satisfaction ran through her as she poised herself upon a jutting stone at the water's edge.

  22. It occurred to Ida that Weston limped somewhat awkwardly, and once or twice she fancied that she saw his face contract as they scrambled over some shelf of jutting stone; but they pushed on cautiously until they came to a precipitous descent.

  23. We then joined Frank on a jutting crag of the canyon wall.

  24. As we turned a jutting point in the wall, a number of animals, which I did not recognize, plunged helter-skelter down the canyon slope.

  25. I dodged the jutting rocks and projecting snags; felt stinging branches in my face and the rush of sweet, dry wind.

  26. Jones waved his hand till a huge jutting cliff walled him from view.

  27. He took me to a jutting corner of cliff, which hid us from the others, and here he exercised still more care in scrutinizing the lay of the ground.

  28. After throwing the gleams of torch-light in all directions, the explorers seated themselves on a jutting rock, and began to debate whether it was practicable for the colony to make an abode in these lower depths of the mountain.

  29. I had seen that brick, and picked it loose from an Arab stable on the edge of the Sahara, and I had seen it jutting through moss on the high moors of Northumberland.

  30. A little tower there, jutting out perilously from the wall, shows three courses of a small red brick set in a mortar-like stone.

  31. To the west the eastern cape of Commonwealth Bay was visible, and sweeping away to the north-east was the Mertz Glacier with sheer, jutting headlands succeeding one another into the distance.

  32. While passing the extremity of the western promontory, we observed an exposure of rock, jutting out of the ice near sea-level, in the face of a scar left by an avalanche.

  33. The rocky wall under which the tent was raised proved to be three hundred feet high, jutting out from beneath the slopes of ice.

  34. He would then either stop suddenly against a jutting point of ice, or glide along for twenty or thirty yards till he reached a patch of rocks or some rough sastrugi.

  35. The island was three and a half miles from the camp, exposing a bare ridge and a jutting bluff, nine hundred feet high--Watson Bluff.

  36. Then the petrels would be en fete, flying over from the east following the line of the Barrier, winding round the icy coves, darting across the jutting points and ever onward in their long migration.

  37. On jutting brinks and precipices sheer Precariously we steer.

  38. Towards evening the snow had thickened, but thanks to the splendid assistance afforded by a sail, the white jutting spurs of the edge of Mertz Glacier were dimly visible.

  39. It was an arrangement of pine with one great jutting bough, perfectly balanced--in fact, a veritable work of art.

  40. Toward sunset the low jutting fore-land of Canaveral on the east coast of Florida, came into view.

  41. Bird maintained a stubborn silence, his fierce eyes answering the dwarf's, look for look, and his prominent chin jutting out a little more squarely.

  42. One of these stones, of grey limestone, and very like a milestone with no inscription, is still to be seen jutting out from the bank of Shobrooke Park, on the Stockleigh Pomeroy road.

  43. The cliffs and adjacent sea are alive with seabirds, every ledge and jutting rock being alive with them, or they are whirling round in clouds, filling the air with their discordant screams.

  44. The coast is very fine, but also most dangerous, and the cliffs, cleft here and there by great chasms, fall sheer down to needle-points of hard black slate rock jutting out into the sea.

  45. It was a jutting point with a good open platform on the very summit, composed of rock a good deal softer than the mass of basaltic lava which makes up in great part the cone of that vast and seething volcano.

  46. On the smooth ice surface there was no cover except the jutting mountain top off to the right.

  47. And I was making my plans when the tall old man stood up on the small, jutting top of that mountain.

  48. Blind with terror, shaking in agony, Zulannah fumbled helplessly for the special brick; it lay, she knew, in the third row and had as mark a jutting piece of mortar in the middle.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.