PROMONTORY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PROMONTORY, such as:
1. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower sides of roofs, bays, and promontories.
2. They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.
3. I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROMONTORY
promontory
 n.  natural elevation, especially a rock that projects into the sea; cliff; headland; high cape
Classic Sentence:
1  The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
4  One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
5  The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
6  It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
7  It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower sides of roofs, bays, and promontories.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
Example Sentence:
1  They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.