Get to know Escarpment better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like scarp or slope.
Escarpment meaning
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
Using Escarpment
- The main meaning on this page is: A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
- Useful related words include: scarp, slope, incline, side.
- In the example corpus, escarpment often appears in combinations such as: the escarpment, an escarpment, niagara escarpment.
Context around Escarpment
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Escarpment
- In this selection, "escarpment" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, illawarra, boterekwa, jacques, otherwise, provides and path stand out and add context to how "escarpment" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the escarpment and a rocky escarpment. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "escarpment" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with escarpment
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It will become cloudy in the evening south of the escarpment. (11 words)
Fine and warm with morning and evening fog south of the escarpment. (12 words)
Forming part of the Illawarra escarpment, it provides sweeping views over the city. (13 words)
He said there are indications and allegations that the miners operating in the Boterekwa escarpment are flouting environmental laws which are resulting in severe land degradation. (26 words)
Mpumalanga residents can enjoy partly cloudy and warm to hot conditions with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread along the escarpment and on the eastern Highveld. (26 words)
The province has already built what it calls a green belt at the foot of the St-Jacques escarpment as part of the Turcot project. (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cloudy in the east with morning fog along the Escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and thundershowers.
During an inspection on Monday, a city consultant noticed a bulge in the steel wall along the escarpment.
Forming part of the Illawarra escarpment, it provides sweeping views over the city.
He said there are indications and allegations that the miners operating in the Boterekwa escarpment are flouting environmental laws which are resulting in severe land degradation.
It will become cloudy in the evening south of the escarpment.
The loop follows the Little Rouge Creek and it gradually climbs the escarpment before meeting up with a railroad.
The province has already built what it calls a green belt at the foot of the St-Jacques escarpment as part of the Turcot project.
The star of a Bronte home known as the Quarry Box is an existing mature gum tree set against a rocky escarpment.
En route, one can hike up and over the neighboring escarpment to an overlook with a great view of the buttes.
Fine and warm with morning and evening fog south of the escarpment.
Isolated showers and thundershowers can be expected along the escarpment and eastern Highveld in the evening.
Mpumalanga residents can enjoy partly cloudy and warm to hot conditions with scattered showers and thundershowers but widespread along the escarpment and on the eastern Highveld.
The gritstone escarpment provides awe-inspiring views and is great for adventurers with the trail getting a little bit difficult in places.
The remnants of a forgotten world can be found all along the Mpumalanga escarpment.
Now you can turn around and re-explore the escarpment path on your way back.
Bamako is relatively flat, except to the immediate north where an escarpment is found, being what remains of an extinct volcano.
By late afternoon, the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington's forces from the escarpment on which they stood.
Freshwater can be found in Buada lagoon, and also in some brackish ponds at the escarpment base in Ijuw and Anabar in the northeast.
Great deserts Three great deserts isolate Najd from north, east, and south as the Red Sea escarpment does from the west.
In 2014, a recently discovered escarpment on Mars was named the McClure-Beverlin Ridge in honor of the pair, who had since passed on.
Common combinations with escarpment
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the escarpment 15×
- an escarpment 5×
- niagara escarpment 4×
- escarpment and 3×
- escarpment on 3×
- escarpment are 2×
- escarpment as 2×
- escarpment to 2×
- siria escarpment 2×
- escarpment that 2×