How do you use Outcropping in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like outcrop or rock, plus the exact meaning.
Outcropping meaning
An outcrop.
Using Outcropping
- The main meaning on this page is: An outcrop.
- Useful related words include: outcrop, rock outcrop, rock, stone.
- In the example corpus, outcropping often appears in combinations such as: rocky outcropping, rock outcropping, outcropping that.
Context around Outcropping
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outcropping
- In this selection, "outcropping" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rocky, rock, cliff, quartz, copper and prospects stand out and add context to how "outcropping" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a big outcropping several miles and a cliff outcropping to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outcropping" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outcropping
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Look for a cliff outcropping to the northeast of the Forsaken Quarry dungeon. (13 words)
Above the water, the animals populate every rocky outcropping, lying prostrate in the sun. (14 words)
This was much more of an organic outcropping of us seeing each other as friends. (15 words)
Secondarily, sampling on a number of outcropping quartz veins in the area around the porphyry targets identified a possible 1.1-kilometer (.7 miles) extension of the existing 2.4-kilometer (1.5 miles) gold-silver-tellurium vein system. (39 words)
At one point on that December night, they reached a particularly large rock outcropping and swept aside the quickly accumulating snow to reveal an earlier discovery: a spectacular carving of human figures with outstretched arms above a boat. (38 words)
The land boundaries are run out by courses and distances, and a marker, whether natural or artificial, such as a post or tree or rock outcropping, is what are used to fix the corners, or angles. (36 words)
Example sentences (17)
At one point on that December night, they reached a particularly large rock outcropping and swept aside the quickly accumulating snow to reveal an earlier discovery: a spectacular carving of human figures with outstretched arms above a boat.
Look for a cliff outcropping to the northeast of the Forsaken Quarry dungeon.
Red Rock Island, a big outcropping several miles from San Francisco, has been listed for $25 million.
We emerged on the wrong side of the point locals call La Vaca, or the Cow — a 30-foot-high rocky outcropping that juts into the ocean, at the western end of Perfect Beach.
He also points to recent research which found 26 plus ring marks on rocky outcropping some 250m north east.
Secondarily, sampling on a number of outcropping quartz veins in the area around the porphyry targets identified a possible 1.1-kilometer (.7 miles) extension of the existing 2.4-kilometer (1.5 miles) gold-silver-tellurium vein system.
The area shares a geological setting that is interpreted to be identical to that of Storm, and contains numerous outcropping copper occurrences with coincident geophysical anomalies.
The company holds 80 percent interest in the Fortuna project, located 10 kilometers north of Lana Corina, where seven outcropping prospects have been identified.
The flap is the latest outcropping of a racially-charged legal dispute between Babington-Johnson’s Stairstep Foundation and the Twin Cities’ leading public funders of affordable housing.
This is your cue to make a 90-degree right turn off the trail and head for a rock outcropping that, in winter, you can see through the hardwoods.
This was much more of an organic outcropping of us seeing each other as friends.
Above the water, the animals populate every rocky outcropping, lying prostrate in the sun.
The Newmont program was specifically designed to test for Carlin-style deposits within the Caracol Formation which underlies the Ahuichila Formation conglomerate and did not target the outcropping epithermal breccias.
The land boundaries are run out by courses and distances, and a marker, whether natural or artificial, such as a post or tree or rock outcropping, is what are used to fix the corners, or angles.
Dzaoudzi, capital of the Comoros until 1962 and now Mayotte's administrative center, is situated on a rocky outcropping off the east shore of the main island.
Its 2 sources are diffusion downward from the mixed layer and lateral expansions outcropping strata (poleward); it contains about 58% of the total tritium.
The city of Çanakkale is visible along the shores of the lower peninsula, centered at the only point where a sharp outcropping juts into the otherwise-linear Dardanelles.
Common combinations with outcropping
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rocky outcropping 4×
- rock outcropping 3×
- outcropping that 2×
- outcropping of 2×