Example sentences for: promontory

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

  • Several boat tours explore the bay for close-up sightings of beluga whale and cruise over to the ruins of Fort Prince of Wales on a promontory at the mouth of the Churchill River.

  • Head out towards the old lighthouse which sits surrounded by water on a lonely promontory.

  • Blue-and-white agapanthus cling to the top of the promontory, and pine and eucalyptus creep right to the edge, but an even greater degree of daring can be seen hundreds of feet below, where farmers have managed to salvage tiny plots of arable land, terracing them into little green postage stamps stuck onto the sides and base of the cliff.

  • 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.


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