rockface
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rockface
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere in Switzerland, above the resort of Kandersteg, in the Bernese Oberland region, a rockface has become unstable, threatening the village.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
Growing up on his family fjord farm on an unimaginably steep Norwegian mountainside, Magne Åkernes learned to live with risk at every turn—especially around a crack hidden in the rockface.
From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023
The collapse took place after several days of heavy rains that appeared to have helped the rockface to loosen at Furnas Lake.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2022
The pallaqueras find far less gold, generally, than the miners inside at the rockface, but I saw them on the mountain, sometimes with small children, every day.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
He kept thinking of the weight of the rockface pressing in on him...
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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