Sentence example with the word 'scarp'

scarp

abatis, barrier, bulwark, crag, entanglement, fortification, inclination, merlon, portcullis, sally port, stiff climb

Definition n. a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge

Last update: August 1, 2015


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The stones rolled down the scarp.   [Please select]

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Slight scarp on the north side where the old boundary was removed.   [Please select]

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They result from topography and geology, following the chalk scarp and the river valleys.   [Please select]

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Above these rose the old building, partly from a foundation of red rock scarped down to the sea-beach, and partly from the steep green verge of the moat.   [Please select]

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The scarp or steeply inclined slope; this is necessarily of small extent except in the direction of its length.   [Please select]

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It seemed a solitary flame, night around it and a sweep of scarped earth.   [Please select]

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_) It was, properly speaking, a fosse, the scarp of which was higher than the counter-scarp.   [Please select]

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The town appears to have crowned the whole of the plateau, which was protected by scarped rocks against all attack.   [Please select]

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Many an officer lay silent or moaning, on the scarped slope, in the terrific tangle about the creek, or on the melancholy plain beyond.   [Please select]

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Clayley, Chane, Raoul, and myself, being unarmed, had thrown ourselves behind the scarp to avoid catching a stray shot.   [Please select]

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The cattle-shed was scarped out of the hillside, and was within a few feet of the blacksmith's house.   [Please select]

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