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- noun Plural form of
promontory .
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Examples
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Over time, as new communities formed and existing ones grew, fishers from neighboring communities often began to view ‘their’ seas to have particular territorial limits, with unique features of the landscape, such as promontories or coastal caves, marking their extent.
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On this road north I found the same "promontories" that had been such a feature of the first one, flung across from the northwest to the southeast.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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I hiked into palm washes and up unmarked trails, always water, carrying water everywhere, always a hat, wearing a broadbrimmed hat and a neckerchief, and I stood on promontories in punishing sun, stood and looked.
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As painful as the first act my favorite part was the versatile set, composed of moving planks which turned into trees or promontories as the plot required, I agreed to stick out the second act, if only because 7:35 p.m., when Act I ended, seemed rather early to call it a night.
Wrung Out in the Ring Cycle Ralph Garder Jr. 2011
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Obama is steering his ship right between two rocky promontories, like Odysseus trying to navigate between the dangerous rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis.
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Six are vertical, of one or more of the promontories close up, including this print now at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., that is thought to date between 1878 and 1881.
His Best Shot John Wilmerding 2011
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Isles about whose promontories danced the black man's light canoe,
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While the Israeli and Palestinian territories are ever more disconnected from one another - whether walls of concrete, walls of hate, walls of psychosis incubated in the vacant lots of empty childhoods, or even literary festivals celebrating Israeli and Palestinian writers at the same time yet completely without acknowledgment of the other - we remain insistent on our island-like existence, instead of accepting we are each promontories and peninsulas.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
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We are peninsulas, promontories of the giant Muslim Ummah.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
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"We stand today on one of the strange promontories of human history."
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