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Example sentences for "bare rock"

  • One mile due West of the highest point we found a native well in a sandy gutter, and about 150 yards from it, to the East, a high wall of bare rock as regular as if it had been built.

  • From some stony rises a large, prominent hill came into view, as if formed of three great steps of bare rock.

  • Twelve miles of open forest, alternating with scrubby thickets, brought me to the edge of a fine little plain of saltbush and grass, from the centre of which a bare rock of granite stood out.

  • We reached a small islet, at the west point of Charles Bay, and passed a good night on the top of a bare rock.

  • Even the lichens which coat what at first sight often seems to be bare rock afford an ample covering for this purpose.

  • Thus on the surface of bare rock or frozen earth all the rain may go away without entering the ground.

  • Thus, in the earthquake of 1692, the Blue Mountains of Jamaica were so violently shaken that the soil and the forests which stood on it were precipitated into the river beds, so that many tree-clad summits became fields of bare rock.

  • We were at a bare rock, and had the rain lasted with the same force for only a minute, we could have given our horses a drink upon the spot, but as it was we got none.

  • There was a small area of bare rock, but it was too flat to hold any quantity of water, though some of the fluid was shining on it; there was only enough for two or three camels, but I decided to camp there nevertheless.

  • There was a little canyon in the creek nearby and the water rushed down over a bed of bare rock at an angle of about twenty degrees.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully kind; bare feet; bare majority; bare rock; bare subsistence; children should; class work; comes forward; future navigators; giving orders; including fishing and forestry; large income; mechanical movements; medical school; modern thought; obey orders; opium eating; purely mechanical; railway train; rational animal; reference should; separate state; valuable collection; when every; will always