Recent Examples on the WebLocated in San Pablo Strait slightly northeast of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, East Brother is easy for commuters to miss amid the scattered rocky outcroppings jutting from the water.—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024 Target shallow smallmouth hangouts like rocky points, ledges and outcroppings, and slow your retrieve as much as possible while maintaining your lure’s proper action.—Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024 Then a large dive boat motored into sight from behind a rocky outcropping.—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024 If he was tossed over one of the outcroppings, that would be bad.—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024 Watch from an island in the South Pacific as the sun drops into the ocean, enjoy daylight turning to dusk from the red rocks of the desert, take in the cotton candy skies from Malibu, or stand on a rocky outcropping as the sun illuminates a centuries-old temple.—Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2023 At its apex, visitors arrive at a flat outcropping with small pools of water surrounded by sheer red cliffs.—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023 Perched on an outcropping overlooking the entire village, Chalet Zermatt Peak has all the bells and whistles of a villain’s lair from a James Bond movie.—Everett Potter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 The city of Hoboken, N.J., once a marshy outcropping that the Lenape inhabited only seasonally, hugs the Hudson River.—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
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