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Example sentences for: promontory

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Cabrillo National Monument, situated on the Point Loma promontory (I-5/I-8 exit on Rosecrans Street and follow the signs), celebrates the man who discovered San Diego Bay.
The line, which linked up with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, was built under the most hazardous conditions, using poorly paid Chinese laborers who sometimes worked suspended in wicker baskets over sheer cliffs to hack a tenuous cutting through the steep passes of the Sierras.
The fortress-town of Castelsardo stands high on a spectacular promontory overlooking the gulf.
Set on a promontory where the Yangzi and Jialing rivers converge, this starkly industrial city of smokestacks is crucial to transportation and commerce in southwest China.
On the bay’s southwestern promontory is the fascinating Grotta di Nettuno (Neptune’s Grotto).