Examples of outcropping in a Sentence
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The video shows the two men shoving sandstone chunks over the edge of an outcropping as someone else screams.
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Noah Osborne, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
One prehistoric workshop was located on an outcropping of sandstone.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
For all the ways Wyoming is unusual — roughly 600,000 residents, spread across a vast expanse of mountains, high plains and moon-like outcroppings — its recent politics turn out to resemble other red and purple states.
—Kate Zernike, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The key to transformation is not going after the form itself—the form is merely the outcropping.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Located 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
Noah Osborne, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
One prehistoric workshop was located on an outcropping of sandstone.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
For all the ways Wyoming is unusual — roughly 600,000 residents, spread across a vast expanse of mountains, high plains and moon-like outcroppings — its recent politics turn out to resemble other red and purple states.
—Kate Zernike, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The key to transformation is not going after the form itself—the form is merely the outcropping.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Located 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
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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcropping. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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outcropping
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out·crop·ping
ˈȧut-ˌkrä-piŋ 
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