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Example sentences for "outcroppings"

Lexicographically close words:
outcome; outcomes; outcries; outcrop; outcropping; outcrops; outcry; outcurve; outdated; outdid
  1. The precious outcroppings of goldenstone had to be up ahead!

  2. Curt felt his way around clumps of underbrush and outcroppings of rock.

  3. Janet watched her for a time as she darted around outcroppings of rock.

  4. The riffle took its name from a number of turtle-backed outcroppings of bedrock pushing up all the way across the river.

  5. In this zone there are also fifteen or more other outcroppings of chromite, most of them obscured by broken ore and rock debris.

  6. Harmful outcroppings of the idea of caste were merely sporadic; wherever they made themselves felt they were instantly rooted out.

  7. A curve of the ridge brought him to the first outcroppings of crystallized quartz.

  8. Within its zone there are many areas in which sharp limestone and sandstone outcroppings predominate over the serpentine, although the ranges as a whole are characterized by rounded mountain features.

  9. Must less brilliant colors appear on serpentine outcroppings and, as is the case with the mixed woods, the difference is abrupt where limestone and serpentine are the surface rocks in closely adjacent areas.

  10. Map to show the outcroppings of peculiar rock types in the region of the Great Lakes, and some of the localities where “float copper” has been collected (float copper localities after Salisbury).

  11. Hidden under the farm vegetation or masked by the woods are scattered outcroppings of rock which have been the basis of the geologist’s judgment in preparing the map.

  12. If the outcroppings are sufficiently numerous, and rock type, strike and dip, may all be determined, the folds of the district may be restored with almost as much accuracy as though their curves were everywhere exposed to view.

  13. It is interesting to follow this ancient waterway and to discover that, like our normal, present-day streams, it was held up in narrows wherever outcroppings of harder rock had constricted its channel (Fig.

  14. Outcroppings of large bones are plainly visible in the limestone cliff.

  15. Although it does not appear at the surface anywhere in the State, it has been studied from specimens obtained from deep wells here or from outcroppings in other States.

  16. Striking up the hill above the point where this "float" lay, I found the outcroppings of a thin seam of bornite, which is a valuable copper ore if found in quantities.

  17. We repeated this operation at several other points on the river, and carefully examined the outcroppings all along the stream.

  18. The banks of the river showed outcroppings of slate, striking east and west, with a pitch to the south of forty-five degrees.

  19. As they approached the reef, coral heads and outcroppings began to appear.

  20. They found coral outcroppings and tied their float lines, being careful not to cut their hands.

  21. Although most coral growth was limited to the reef area, outcroppings of coral called "heads" had grown up toward the surface in some places.

  22. Black spruce slopes and green pines and white streaks of aspens and lacy waterfall of foam and dark outcroppings of rock--these colors and forms greeted her gaze with all the old enchantment.

  23. Beyond this depression the land sloped rather abruptly; outcroppings of rock circled along the edge of the highest ground, and again a dark fringe of trees appeared.

  24. Everywhere beneath me, for leagues and leagues extended the timbered hills of green, the gray outcroppings of rocks, the red bluffs, the golden patches of grassy valleys, lost in the canyons.

  25. Emerson bore about the same relation to the absurder outcroppings of transcendentalism that Milton bore to the New Lights, Ranters, Fifth Monarchy Men, etc.

  26. The unevenness of the plain and occasional rock outcroppings made the work exasperatingly slow.

  27. Small outcroppings of black glassy rock punctured the ash, becoming more numerous as they progressed.

  28. He picked his way toward them, then descended until he found shelter between two rock outcroppings which gave him a clear view of Bandit.


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