Example sentences for: promontory

How can you use “promontory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It stretches around bays and rocky inlets from Olbia in the east to the promontory of La Maddalena.

  • There is also a good view west to the Bay of Funchal; to the east, the modern resort on the small promontory is Caniço de Baixa, another favorite with German vacationers.

  • Henry and his sailors are said to have set up camp at the Fortaleza de Sagres (fortress) that sits on the promontory, though little of the original structure has survived.

  • From medieval mountain villages and the dramatic lunar landscape of Mallorca’s Formentor promontory to mysterious prehistoric settlements and isolated beaches accessible only by foot on Menorca, the islands abound with sights that are anything but blandly international.

  • The lake dramatically divides into two arms on either side of the pretty resort town of Bellagio, which juts out on a hilly promontory.


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