PROMONTORY


Meaning of PROMONTORY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

rocky

On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.

At the far end a rocky promontory extended into deep water - a promising place for snorkelling.

A fisherman is silhouetted there, standing on a rocky promontory .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory .

It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory .

Maddalena Island from Palau, and see some of its innumerable bays, channels, coves and promontories.

On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.

The bay, the promontories, the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock.

The Douglas castle of Morton stands on a promontory , protected on three sides by a small loch.

The plane crashed just off a promontory called Lovers' Point.

Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.

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