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.
Though outnumbered four to one, the commando fighters cleared the entire headland. The Times Literary Supplement
Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure. The Devil's Novice
Also worth getting the tides right, so you can pop down to the beach under the headland and see Merlin's Cave - a huge cave going right through, under the landward end of the headland by the isthmus.
This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck.
I had lunch today, in a little glassed-in concrete area above the public toilets in a little bay on the headland of which stands a statue of the Virgin Mary, just south of the old port of Biarritz.
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
On this hypothesis the spits both start from their respective headlands and converge towards the centre of the bay.
Follow the signposted coastal path until you see to your right a headland with a building. Times, Sunday Times
It is a typical Catalan affair: a lobster and rice stew, cuttlefish black in their own ink, grilled prawns, bread rubbed with tomato and drizzled with oil, and, to finish, a Cadaqués speciality, "taps" - sweet, very light plain sponge cakes bought from a patisserie around the headland that morning. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The village is sheltered by stunning mountains, and lies on the eastern side of a headland away from westerly gales. Times, Sunday Times
The Northland ophiolite crops out at headlands to the east and west of Cooper's Beach on the eastern Northland Peninsula.
The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra.
The captain counts it a light upon one of the headlands of the Jersey shore; and he orders the helmsman (she is sailing in the eye of an easy westerly breeze) to give her a couple of points more "northing"; and the yards and sheets are trimmed accordingly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
At the edge of the bluffs, visitors get beautiful views of the ocean and headlands.
The remains of a diamond-shaped plan overlook the windy headland.
The New York Sun's art critic wrote that Kent… knocks you off your pins with these broad, realistic, powerful representations of weltering seas, men laboring in boats, rude rocky headland and snowbound landscapes…
And the almadia, which they had left, we took to the caravel Nina, to which from another headland there was coming another little almadia, with a man who came to barter a skein of cotton. The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
All the headlands such as Towan and Trevose are places to go and wet a line for typical species such as wrasse, mackerel and garfish, but just do be careful and keep an eye out for rogue waves and lively sea conditions.
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
He found himself on a wild and sparsely inhabited coastline of pristine turquoise coves and macchia-clad headlands. Times, Sunday Times
Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill.
Wednesday (8) we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland, which is called Caninoz,192 the wind being at East and by North. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
Private inlets bookended by rough limestone headlands and edged by round-leafed cashew trees or palms are hidden behind unmarked turnoffs.
They create a spectacular panorama of carved coastlines and headlands as well as a rich ecosystem that supports an unusual abundance of wildlife.
From the top of the highest headland, which is divided into two nipple-like peaks, an extensive view can be obtained. Spinifex and Sand
It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands.
It forms a significant bulwark against the tide so that, even on neaps, there is an appreciable movement of water as the pent-up flow sweeps around the headland.
At Odeceixe in the south the River Seixe broadened through sandbars to meet the sea between high rocky headlands.
These are soybeans growing on the headlands on August 30, 2004.
If you want to be independent, go to any promontory, headland or peninsula that has deep water close inshore and allows you to stand on a cliff a good height above water level.
If you could only see so far, just to one side of that same headland, across yon low dikey ground, you would catch sight of the isle of Narborough, the loftiest land of the cluster; no soil whatever; one seamed clinker from top to bottom; abounding in black caves like smithies; its metallic shore ringing under foot like plates of iron; its central volcanoes standing grouped like a gigantic chimney-stack. The Piazza Tales
Old pilots and young, fishermen and gossoons, they swept out from creek and headland in their swift Mayo skiffs.
Thus he spake, and straightway they ceased from such words and gave unwearying labour to the oar; and quickly they passed by the swiftly flowing river Rhebas and the peak of Colone, and soon thereafter the black headland, and near it the mouth of the river Phyllis, where aforetime The Argonautica
The wind that had roared all night lay quelled by the headland; the bosun grew too sleepy to shout. Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
Built in baronial style, among beautiful woodland gardens, it's perched on the headland where Loch Awe divides.
With neaping tides this weekend the best shot to target a barra will be around the rocky headlands.
It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland.
A stiff north-westerly wind blew bracingly in from the grey and ochre ocean, soughing noisily through a field of high green corn stalks, bending the inland ash and thorn and willow, scraping the short turf and the bare headlands. Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
In these places are jagged cliffs falling almost vertical to the tide line, sea-scarred headlands defiantly forcing their way westwards, and fallen scree a remnant of aeons of erosion.
The headland was a precipitous cliff of red sandstone, crowned at the summit with a fringe of forest trees, white at its base were two or three hollow caverns, worn into the solid rock by the action of the surf. Lost in the Fog
‘And this,’ he said, with a sweep of his arm that took in the stark capes and headlands, the fleets of islands and the sea around us, ‘this was my school room.’
On the summit of the headland was a castle accessible on two sides only. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
Walk up the narrow headland to find steps on the left down to a rocky inlet. Times, Sunday Times
Sri Lanka's first deluxe boutique hotel is on a rocky headland on the southern coast. The Sun
They have been there on a headland jutting into a sea loch for 4,000 years. Times, Sunday Times
The whole resort featured 156 luxurious Malaysian-style villas, with various suites and estates scattered amidst the lush rainforest, white beaches and rocky headlands.
Plenty of big Italian stars will be out in the force for the important, early-season semi-classic along Italy's Riviera coast, taking in a few of the "capi" or headlands featured in Milan-San Remo before turning inland to tackle some tough climbs in the sharp hills above the coast. VeloNews
Popular with everyone from trainees to experienced divers, this site is the start of several interesting routes around the next headland to underwater canyons such as the Cresta Run and Divers' Hole.
The beach itself is not particularly dramatic, but its crescent of sand is squeezed cosily between two protective wooded headlands, with dunes behind and a basin-full of tranquil Bristol Channel in front.
Tailor are around most of the headlands, with some nice squire and bream being caught off Lennox Headland.
The sky had partially cleared by then, a mild and milky sun was warming the air without quite disseminating the mist, and the young man who came strolling along a headland with a hound at his heel and a half-trained merlin on a creance on his wrist had dew-darkened boots, and a spray of drops on his uncovered light-brown hair from the shaken leaves of some copse left behind him. The Devil's Novice
Walk up the narrow headland to find steps on the left down to a rocky inlet. Times, Sunday Times
The headland is a bold block of white limestone stained with red. New Italian sketches
To the south-east, just off the headland, there is a dangerous bombora at times, an area where broken waves can suddenly erupt.
It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields. FWi - All News
Joe asked, as they flew by a lighthouse blinking from a rocky headland. Chapter X
Walk up the narrow headland to find steps on the left down to a rocky inlet. Times, Sunday Times
The trail arched gently around a broad bay towards Krios headland, the corner of Crete, and a tiny chapel whose whitewashed walls gleamed like a beacon.
Framed by gangly palm trees, the beach curved from one distant headland to another. Times, Sunday Times
It was from Manorbier that I persuaded the children to join me in a walk along a small stretch of Pembrokeshire's 186 mile coastal path, threading between heather, sea pinks and campion along a volley of headlands.
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
The beach here is spectacular, curving gently round the bay under a towering, wild headland.
Sri Lanka's first deluxe boutique hotel is on a rocky headland on the southern coast. The Sun
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
The Fal estuary is long and wide, and Falmouth grew along its western side in a straggling way, curving round into docks at the southern end where a headland projects to narrow the mouth.
Wide, curving beaches below the treeless headland are accessible by trail.
We set off to walk the cliff path to St Abbs Head, a rugged headland etched with sheer sea cliffs and dramatically deep gullies.
It was the kind of setting that summons one to do nothing at all, and I was working toward that goal when, around the headland, appeared the silhouette of a small cutter, beating in from the open sea.
The trail arched gently around a broad bay towards Krios headland, the corner of Crete, and a tiny chapel whose whitewashed walls gleamed like a beacon.
We were overseeing a beach from a heathy headland. Times, Sunday Times
It is perched on the headland where Loch Awe divides, pushing a much smaller section north-west towards Loch Etive.
This had the effect of creating raised areas separated by troughs or furrows, the whole having a marked S-shaped form in plan with headlands for turning the plough at either end.
The proposal calls for 120 towers in four farms, on some of the most scenic headlands on the Victorian coastline.
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
Now a state historic park, Fort Ross is a complex of reconstructed buildings situated on the headlands overlooking the ocean.
On a small, precarious headland the faint traces of a monastic cell can be seen.
At last it is decided that to avoid the strong currents they'll have to take a longer loop around the headland to reach the shore. Times, Sunday Times
Though outnumbered four to one, the commando fighters cleared the entire headland. The Times Literary Supplement
There are garfish, tailor and bream around the headland whereas off shore the odd snapper or dolphin fish is being picked up.
Evans calculated the tides perfectly once again, and we had the benefit of three knots free while we raced around the famous headland.
There is a small bar on the cape head itself and tourists can stay at the "pousada" on the headland. Purpleocity.net
Sri Lanka's first deluxe boutique hotel is on a rocky headland on the southern coast. The Sun
I looked at the coastline's beaches, headlands and palms and wondered how long it would all last without the reef's protective barrier.
Now a state historic park, Fort Ross is a complex of reconstructed buildings situated on the headlands overlooking the ocean.
windswept headlands
At last it is decided that to avoid the strong currents they'll have to take a longer loop around the headland to reach the shore. Times, Sunday Times
It was from Manorbier that I persuaded the children to join me in a walk along a small stretch of Pembrokeshire's 186 mile coastal path, threading between heather, sea pinks and campion along a volley of headlands.
It is perched on the headland where Loch Awe divides, pushing a much smaller section north-west towards Loch Etive.
Though outnumbered four to one, the commando fighters cleared the entire headland. The Times Literary Supplement
In Britain, fields are much smaller with headlands and hedgerows that are vital to wildlife and traditionally many different crop species are grown in the same area, often in rotation.
The castle is built on a headland that protrudes out from the coast, and is almost an island.
If up early you can pick up the odd tailor or bream off the beaches or headlands.
They have been there on a headland jutting into a sea loch for 4,000 years. Times, Sunday Times
They have been there on a headland jutting into a sea loch for 4,000 years. Times, Sunday Times
The loud light, and the views to the confluence of several estuaries and to several headlands and beyond them the sea are transfixing.
After a stretch of dusty track, I climbed a slope onto a wooded headland, turned a corner and was immediately engulfed by the overwhelming solitude that is Lake Titicaca.
Housed in former army barracks, the Headlands offers artists' residencies in an idyllic oceanside landscape of rolling hills.
He found himself on a wild and sparsely inhabited coastline of pristine turquoise coves and macchia-clad headlands. Times, Sunday Times
Flinders surveyed and charted the entire south coast from Cape Leeuwin and reached South Australian waters in January 1802 also charting the coast, islands, bays and headlands.
In the distance we see the headland that is our destination: Cape Palinuro, an accusatory finger jutting its way into the sea.
Headlands School pupil Samantha, 15, took part in the dance sequence accompanying the title song as well acting as a pupil of the stage school.
Sri Lanka's first deluxe boutique hotel is on a rocky headland on the southern coast. The Sun
Think of the money you could save by turning off your sprayer or planter the second you enter the headlands.
For the present, at least, Jim was elated with a pardonable pride in his watch, and, after the manner of youths thus recently set up, he looked at it again and again during his walk next morning across the headlands to Ballycastle, where he had to catch the Ballymoney car, thence to proceed to Ballymena by train. A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune
And while we prepare to battle around the stormiest headland in the world our situation on board grows darker. CHAPTER XXXI
That was about thirty miles north of the eastern headland of Unalaska Island. BARRACUDA 945
Bronze Age discoveries have been made on a Pembrokeshire headland following a moorland fire last summer.
And why do marker arms fly up at light speed when raising a planter at headlands?
Contemporary attitudes and beliefs are dichotomized between emphasis on amenity/newcomer and commodity/long-time resident values, but all overlain by a rural lifestyle, even in the trendy Marin headlands north of San Francisco. Northern California Coast (Bailey)
With the pony and gingle they explored many of the lovely Jersey lanes and headlands, for driving seldom tired Win. The Spanish Chest
Unlike Coogee and beaches to the north, the lack of high headlands also means that most of the suburbs in Maroubra are more exposed to south-east winds.
Minutes later, we're leaping joyfully across a bay of sparkling wavelets towards a headland crowned with the ruins of a pirate castle.
Lovely is the Rhine! on its shelvy banks grows the racy grape; and strange old keeps of robber-knights of yore are reflected in its waters, from picturesque crags and airy headlands! George Borrow The Man and His Books
Three hundred yards along the shore a tree-covered headland rose above the surrounding land. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
A steep headland springing from a ledge of rock on the north, and a broad, embayed-based flat converging into an obtruding sand-spit to the west, enclose a bay scarcely half a mile from one horn to the other, the sheet of water almost a perfect crescent, with the rocky islet of Purtaboi, plumed with trees, to indicate the circumference of a circle. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
If you want to be independent, go to any promontory, headland or peninsula that has deep water close inshore and allows you to stand on a cliff a good height above water level.
The Marin Headlands, the dramatic bluffs and canyons just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, are a perspective-altering place.
The patio gave an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea.
The headland's fate now seems to hang in the result of the upcoming federal election.
The headland it was built on forms a natural stronghold with the sea on three sides and is only approachable from the north.
He ordered all press of sail, and with the winds whistling through the rigging and the little ship straining to the smashing seas, did his best to outspeed disease, sighting the long line of surf-washed Aleutian Islands in September, coasting from headland to headland, keeping well offshore for fear of reefs till the end of the month, when compelled to turn in to the mid-bay of Oonalaska for water. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
Places as threatened by this prose as a headland is by the bulldozer or a sea almond grove by the surveyor's string, or from blight, the mountain laurel. Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
To the NNE, 850 miles away, stood the headland of Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of the Indian subcontinent. NIMITZ CLASS
Headland bats with real style and is deadly square of the wicket on the off side.
The patio gave an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea.
Three hours before high water is a good time; dive on the ebb and there is a good chance of being swept out round the headland.
It is perched on the headland where Loch Awe divides, pushing a much smaller section north-west towards Loch Etive.
Scarborough Castle and Whitby Abbey - on the headlands of Yorkshire's coastline, these offer challenging walks with the reward of fantastic views.
It really deserves a more romantic name, Plockton meaning the town on the headland.
Small Whites scatter through the flowery headlands and in this light seem to have an almost violet glow about them.
The ship's bows swung around, and the little steamer was soon scuttling upcoast towards the headland, along the outer line of reefs, at a speed of seven knots. Out of the Primitive
Thence it was gathered into the great littoral current flowing from Africa to Asia, and formed an incurvated coast-line ending in the headland of Casios, on the Syrian frontier. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
The soil at one point on the headland of a neighbouring field about 100 metres west of the south-west corner of Packhouse Field was also sampled; the location and result also appear at appendix 12.
From the start of the autumn term in September, she will be deputy head teacher at Headlands.
From the harbour, it's quick to cut across the headland's narrow neck back to the beach.
If you want to be independent, go to any promontory, headland or peninsula that has deep water close inshore and allows you to stand on a cliff a good height above water level.
It is also proposed to carry out a phased programme of cliff stabilisation works above Scalby Sands, between the mainland and Scalby Ness headland, to protect the headland over the next 60 years.
While I had been expecting storm activity that day, I was cruising behind a headland that blocked my view of the approaching storm cell until it was too late.
The boatmen were ordered to make the best of their way round the headland to the ordinary landing-place; the two gentlemen, followed by their servant, sought their way by a blind and tangled path, through a close copsewood, to the Manse of Knocktarlitie, where their arrival was anxiously expected. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
As we left Stavanger behind, we moved out of the shelter of the Sande headland into open water and the full force of the waves hit us, rocking our little boat like a piece of matchwood.
Sometimes a cave will cut through a headland to become a tunnel, opening out to become an arch, and when the arch eventually collapses a stack is left.
In April of that year, Mick Henry ‘ploughed for potatoes, 35 ridges, headlands and all.’
In a final mark of respect, a rescue helicopter circled low over the bay, dropped a wreath into the sea, and dipped its nose in salute to those on the headland.
And the sails were bellied out by the wind, and far from the coast were they joyfully borne past the Posideian headland.
In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun. Within the Tides
The coastal cliffs and headlands form a natural rockery where primrose, roseroot, thrift, bladder campion, mountain avens, marram grass, violets and spring squills may be found.
Unlike Coogee and beaches to the north, the lack of high headlands also means that most of the suburbs in Maroubra are more exposed to south-east winds.
A thick fog wrapped the world in dimness early this morning; at eight o'clock it was rolling off and piling itself in glorious headlands An Island Garden
The path leads you out to the headland with spectacular views over the firths.
The folded rocks are seen in exposed and submerged nearshore reefs, and cliffed headlands where upfolds bring the harder Black Rock Sandstone above sea level.
Either way, post War British educational and welfare state policies was always going to create a new nationalist meritocracy in the North that the old unionist territorial headlands could not contain.
The large offshore rock behind the eastern headland is The Mouls, which is a breeding site for puffins, gannets and kittiwakes.
a bluff headland
They have been there on a headland jutting into a sea loch for 4,000 years. Times, Sunday Times
The low headland was called the Skaw and it showed dull and misty in the gray twilight. Sharpe's Prey
But when he came back to Portugal, the king told him he ought rather to have called the headland the Cape of Good Hope, for there was now good hope that the way to India was found. Our Own Third Reader: for the Use of Schools and Families
These represent the headlands separating bundles of strips within the open fields, where animals turned while ploughing.
The water was smooth, mirrorlike, silvered blue in the long sun, the bay protected from the swell that was hitting Barra by a large headland to the south. Kook
The lateral migration of spits from coastal headlands produces a new coastline seaward of the original mainland coastline.
A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. Ulysses
Round the headland a pair of towers safeguard a river mouth curling into a distant and indistinct sea.
There are garfish, tailor and bream around the headland whereas off shore the odd snapper or dolphin fish is being picked up.
Towering over the beach is the magnificent headland of Ravenscar which juts out into the ocean like the bow of a ship.
One of the key contentions in the Headlands proposal is the developer's request to build the 2100 foot long sea wall or revetment along Strands beach fronting the property.
If you want to be independent, go to any promontory, headland or peninsula that has deep water close inshore and allows you to stand on a cliff a good height above water level.
The figure you saw was just someone from Toynton Grange taking an innocent stroll on the headland, somewhat overclad for the time of year and so immersed in the beauty of nature that he, or she, neither heard your shout, smelt the fire nor noticed the smoke. She Closed Her Eyes
The broad expanse of water between the Leopard and the cape showed far more white than green; and inshore, where there had been smooth water not half an hour ago, there was the ugly appearance of a tide-rip, a long narrow stretch of pure white that raced eastwards from the headland and that must grow longer, broader, and fiercer by far as the tide reached its full flow. Archive 2006-12-01
They had not got to the end of the headland where the lighthouse is – Briggs asked her to show him the lighthouse, because the path to it, he knew, was wide enough for two to walk abreast and fairly level – before he had told her of the impression she had made on him in London. The Enchanted April
Around the headland was a short rocky beach backed by black slate cliffs. The Mad Ship
Lovely is the Rhine! on its shelvy banks grows the racy grape; and strange old keeps of robber-knights of yore are reflected in its waters, from picturesque crags and airy headlands! — yet neither the stately Danube nor the beauteous Lavengro
Since then, the foxtail is virtually gone except on the headland and the area where no gypsum was applied.
The Conservancy Board will tour the Navarro Headlands and Salmon Creek Forest projects.
From this circumstance the place was called Botany Bay, and its two headlands received the names of Cape History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
Also look for shingle banks, areas of mixed mud and stony ground that holds numbers of dabs, and the ends of headlands that jut out to sea where a tide race forms.
I followed the shoreline out to a headland and around its other side; then inland, upward. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic

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