Scarps is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Scarps meaning
plural of scarp
Using Scarps
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of scarp
- In the example corpus, scarps often appears in combinations such as: fault scarps.
Context around Scarps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scarps
- In this selection, "scarps" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fault, degraded, running and ranging stand out and add context to how "scarps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from the scarps the general and heavily degraded scarps of large. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scarps" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scarps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many 19th-century lava flows are exposed in the fault scarps. (11 words)
The east side of the Central Mountain Range is the steepest mountain slope in Taiwan, with fault scarps ranging in height from convert. (23 words)
Aside from the scarps, the general flatness is only interrupted by a series of plateaus and massifs near the centre of the Libyan Desert, around the convergence of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan borders. (33 words)
Using LiDAR technology, experts revealed a huge network of fault scarps running for more than 33 miles across the northern ranges of the park between Tom Miner Creek Road and Livingston, Montana, to data released via ArcGIS. (37 words)
The mountainous ridges observed in some regions can be explained as heavily degraded scarps of large multi-ring impact structures or as a result of the global contraction due to the slow cooling of the interior. (36 words)
Aside from the scarps, the general flatness is only interrupted by a series of plateaus and massifs near the centre of the Libyan Desert, around the convergence of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan borders. (33 words)
Example sentences (5)
Using LiDAR technology, experts revealed a huge network of fault scarps running for more than 33 miles across the northern ranges of the park between Tom Miner Creek Road and Livingston, Montana, to data released via ArcGIS.
Many 19th-century lava flows are exposed in the fault scarps.
Aside from the scarps, the general flatness is only interrupted by a series of plateaus and massifs near the centre of the Libyan Desert, around the convergence of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan borders.
The east side of the Central Mountain Range is the steepest mountain slope in Taiwan, with fault scarps ranging in height from convert.
The mountainous ridges observed in some regions can be explained as heavily degraded scarps of large multi-ring impact structures or as a result of the global contraction due to the slow cooling of the interior.
Common combinations with scarps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: