(n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
(n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
Example Sentences:
(1) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(4) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(5) Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.
(6) We don’t really have a mandate for the conservation of non-native species.” In his blog, Harper argued that managed shoots could “provide beneficial habitat management for wildlife”, including woodland sky-lighting, planting cover crops and creating conservation headlands.
(7) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
(8) The nearby headland is spectacular, and there's lots to enjoy in this stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
(9) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
(10) Minute by minute, you can see rock being carved by the elements, out on that headland that divides the town in two.
(11) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
(12) It stretches from the headland called Pointe du Meinga, to the Ile Besnard in the west.
(13) With what little strength I had left, I took two unsteady steps up on to the headland.
(14) Backed by low headlands and no less than three waterfalls, it is easy to linger at Porthsychan for as long as the sun allows.
(15) Only palm trees stand between the hotel and the beach, with a headland right beside it and blazing sunsets across the bay.
(16) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
(17) The long sweep of beach ends at a headland where beautiful reef pools are exposed by the receding tide, revealing a huge naturally sheltered pool, offering wonderful snorkelling and tropical fish.
(18) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
(19) Credit: Jonas Dahlberg Studio The headland of the Sørbråten memorial will be engraved with names of all the victims; visitors will be able to read them but not reach to touch them.
(20) These 12 rustic yet thoughtfully designed adobe cabanas are on a palmy beach cradled by rocky headlands two miles east of Puerto Angel and about 50 miles from Puerto Escondido.
Ness
Definition:
(n.) A promontory; a cape; a headland.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(2) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(3) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
(4) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
(5) His insistence on the incomparable virtues of “Thai-ness” and traditional core values, and his self-proclaimed mission to restore “happiness to the people”, have invited open ridicule, even though the media and institutions are closely controlled.
(6) 7.27pm GMT “So looking at the team sheets I see Schweini is back,” observers Eirik Ness.
(7) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
(8) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
(9) The v-myb oncogene of the acute avian leukemia virus E26 encodes a transcription factor that directly regulates the promyelocyte-specific mim-1 gene (Ness, S.A., Marknell, A. and Graf, T. Cell, 59, 1115-1125).
(10) Empirical evidence suggests that exclusionary understandings of the nation, of Australia and Australian-ness as white and Christian allow for a narrow sense of belonging.
(11) "I find myself thinking about what is the core me-ness in me.
(12) Almost at John O'Groats, the beach at Ness of Duncansby sometimes has masses of shells.
(13) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
(14) Amy Winehouse was the first name to be discussed , but not long after the singer appeared to have been dropped - mostly because of her Amy Winehouse-ness .
(15) She then went on to deny that her tweets about 12 Years A Slave at the Oscars were racist before concluding: "I don't want to bore you with real genuine-ness because I know that then you'll start to go online, so I'm can't really even answer any of your questions with any sort of earnestness."
(16) A packed schedule will see the company travelling all around the UK, from the Temple Enclosure in Epping Forest to Ness Botanic Garden in South Wirral, from Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight to Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire.
(17) She wears her New Yorker-ness brazenly, proudly, on her sleeve.
(18) On his return to the clinic, David tells me about his journey back and how strangely dislocated he felt from his surroundings, and the ordinary-ness of the world going on around him.
(19) In an earlier study we found that different forms of the v-myb oncogene transform myeloid cells which resemble either monoblasts [when v-myb of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) was used] or promyelocytes [when a point mutant in v-myb of AMV was used; Introna, M., Golay, J., Frampton J., Nakano, T., Ness, S.A. & Graf, T. (1990).
(20) The corporate-ness has got to such a point where we've essentially been told that we don't exist.