outcropping
- present participle of outcrop.
Example Sentences
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Eberle’s roughly 4.7-acre property is located above a rock outcropping in the Boise Foothills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024
It is a six-acre, dome-shaped outcropping that is tricky to reach and even trickier to explore.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
At its apex, visitors arrive at a flat outcropping with small pools of water surrounded by sheer red cliffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
We got up and walked around the Pond, and stopped at an outcropping of boulders that fell out of the woods.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
