Wondering how to use Outcrop in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as outcropping or rock.
Outcrop meaning
- A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
- A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
- The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
Synonyms of Outcrop
Using Outcrop
- The main meaning on this page is: A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding. | A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground. | The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
- Useful related words include: outcropping, rock outcrop, rock, stone.
- In the example corpus, outcrop often appears in combinations such as: rocky outcrop, outcrop in, the outcrop.
Context around Outcrop
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outcrop
- In this selection, "outcrop" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rocky, seam, yar, enveloping, across and covering stand out and add context to how "outcrop" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a large outcrop of rock and a rocky outcrop above the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outcrop" sits close to words such as accede, adhesion and adjudicate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outcrop
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Crew Cut hairstyle is on the outcrop across the Basalt Rift meditation point. (14 words)
Among them is Lions Head and the outcrop enveloping perhaps the park’s greatest draw: Elk Falls. (17 words)
Massive outcrop: Natural rock formations from which the temples and other structures of Hampi were carved out. (17 words)
Resembling a spaceship that has touched down on a rocky outcrop in one of the driest places on earth, this pod-shaped villa is one of just a handful of accommodation options in the private Gondwana Collection Namibia in the Namib Desert. (42 words)
Perched atop an outcrop a few meters from shore, in a traditional, thatched building, this superb restaurant not only serves some of the most creative seafood dishes around; it also happens to get cut off at high tide. (38 words)
Alnwick Castle, a 150-room, heavily crenellated, many-towered magnificence perched on a rocky outcrop above the River Aln in Northumberland, is the second-largest privately inhabited castle after Windsor — and it bears the scars of centuries. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alnwick Castle, a 150-room, heavily crenellated, many-towered magnificence perched on a rocky outcrop above the River Aln in Northumberland, is the second-largest privately inhabited castle after Windsor — and it bears the scars of centuries.
Among them is Lions Head and the outcrop enveloping perhaps the park’s greatest draw: Elk Falls.
Late-stage aplite, quartz feldspar porphyry and mafic dikes also occur with the mineralized zones and in outcrop.
My job then was to peg the main baseline along where we predicted the coal seam outcrop to be.
On Thursday, the rescuers returned to the outcrop for the first time in months to see if any of those they planted survived the year.
Researchers from the Soil Cryology Lab in Russia extracted the contents of the hole from Duvanny Yar outcrop in Siberia, a sheer wall of prehistoric sediments.
Resembling a spaceship that has touched down on a rocky outcrop in one of the driest places on earth, this pod-shaped villa is one of just a handful of accommodation options in the private Gondwana Collection Namibia in the Namib Desert.
The Crew Cut hairstyle is on the outcrop across the Basalt Rift meditation point.
The main tower is built upon a large outcrop of rock and it also had a dwelling beneath it.
The soil samples were collected over aa approximately 400m x 400m spaced grid over the Property, while grab samples were collected where outcrop or float was present.
The Stingrays walk its length, testing the ground with their feet to ensure that every part of this inorganic outcrop is locked on tight like lego.
Zone 1 is an outcrop covering an area approximately 1.5 square kilometers of the 14 linear kilometer Deep Purple magnetic anomaly.
An oil slick could still be seen on the seawater and a rocky outcrop near the shore, as well as on the beach.
In an auditorium with a huge window looking out over a pond and an outcrop of granite boulders, the advisers gathered with Satter, McKimmie and Gazdag twice a day.
It would leave the tree on a 27-acre rocky outcrop, but it would come within 400 feet of the plant.
Massive outcrop: Natural rock formations from which the temples and other structures of Hampi were carved out.
Outcrop exposure is common, but significant areas are covered by thin glacial deposits, muskeg/swamps or small lakes.
Perched atop an outcrop a few meters from shore, in a traditional, thatched building, this superb restaurant not only serves some of the most creative seafood dishes around; it also happens to get cut off at high tide.
Secondly, there is very little outcrop, and the terrain has thus frustrated, for decades, many prospectors and exploration geologists.
Strung along a jagged rocky outcrop in the Dysynni at the foot of Cader Idris, Castell y Bere is especially good at evoking the spirit and atmosphere of Wales’s native castles.
Common combinations with outcrop
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rocky outcrop 12×
- outcrop in 8×
- the outcrop 7×
- outcrop of 7×
- an outcrop 5×
- rock outcrop 4×
- outcrop at 4×
- outcrop but 2×
- outcrop and 2×
- from outcrop 2×