Synonyms

1. foreland
2. head
3. headland

Sentence Examples

1. It sits atop a promontory opposite the Bass Rock, looking out onto the Firth of Forth.
2. Fernando leads the way round the side of the fort and down a flight of carved basalt steps that follow the curve of the promontory.
3. Athos had seated himself with his son, upon the moss, among the brambles of the promontory.
4. The fort itself, a chunky and stout building of dark grey stone, stands proud on a low promontory.
5. Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.
6. One of its chiefs, who understood Provençal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
7. For three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language.
8. Skull shrugged his shoulders, unslung his M4 and followed along behind, mentally marking a high rocky promontory overhead as a landmark in case he had trouble finding the trail again.
9. It stood to its full height, craning its neck so that its eyes could regard him above its stubby snout, the elaborate horns that jut from out of its forehead coalescing into one emphatic promontory of steely bone.
10. The regularity of the bottom and its conformity to the shores and the range of the neighboring hills were so perfect that a distant promontory betrayed itself in the soundings quite across the pond, and its direction could be determined by observing the opposite shore.