noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rocky
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On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.
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At the far end a rocky promontory extended into deep water - a promising place for snorkelling.
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A fisherman is silhouetted there, standing on a rocky promontory .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory .
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It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory .
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Maddalena Island from Palau, and see some of its innumerable bays, channels, coves and promontories.
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On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.
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The bay, the promontories, the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock.
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The Douglas castle of Morton stands on a promontory , protected on three sides by a small loch.
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The plane crashed just off a promontory called Lovers' Point.
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Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.