cliff dwelling
- a word derived from cliff dweller.
Example Sentences
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We did one last lap around the cliff dwelling lookout points before embarking on one of our longest driving days and heading toward Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
The hottest commodities in the park are the ranger-led cliff dwelling tours, which include visits to balcony house and cliff palace, but we felt fine seeing cliff palace from the adjacent overlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Presidents for decades have preserved spectacular, irreplaceable and integrated natural landscapes, not just one butte or cliff dwelling at a time.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2017
Another small cliff dwelling nearby was cleaned out.
From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior
To this section I have referred as the "main ruin," for it was evidently the most populous quarter of the ancient cliff dwelling.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
