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UK
/hˈɛdlənd/
]
NOUN
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
How To Use headland In A Sentence
- For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
- A classic example of cleaning fan losses can be found at headlands where combine speeds suddenly drop.
- Firstly the village can be found on the east side of a great headland protruding out of Loch Carron, and therefore enjoys a position that protects it from sea gales.
- From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
- I had taken Jason to the Roseland headland in the Fal estuary by the green-painted East Narrows navigation buoy - due east and one mile from the docks.
- There have also been some good jewfish and tailor taken from the headlands and breakwalls.
- The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
- Several days later, spotting the crow's nest of the ship over the headland of Cape Evans, they lit a fire as a signal for the ship to steam back and pick them up.
- Beautiful sandy beaches alternate with rocky headlands, and magnificent coastal villages shine like beacons on the shore…
- Jutting out into the northern Mediterranean, the Portofino headland is a piece of natural unspoilt beauty standing hand in hand with some pretty Italian architecture.