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- noun Plural form of
headland .
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Examples
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The headlands are the numerous prominences which jut out along the north shore of St. Bride's Bay.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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Wide headlands were being left around the ploughed fields and the right feed spread.
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Beauty and challenges surround Indian Head, located on the peninsula where the Potomac River meets Mattawoman Creek in southern Charles County - a place known in the 19th century as the Indian headlands.
Indian Head, Md., free of sprawl - for better and worse Ann Cameron Siegal 2011
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The headlands, though, are a different matter for they still form burgeoning banks of blossom – hogweed, vetch and newly opened harebells.
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With its sandy bays, rocky headlands, dunes, heaths, and broad expanses of green—all silhouetted against the Irish Sea and the blue-white peaks of Snowdonia—Anglesey offered some of the most lushly beautiful scenery to be found anywhere.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Head past the posh cliff-top homes of Clifton and Camps Bay, meanwhile, for surfing hamlets such as Muizenberg, shark-diving spots like Gansbaai and—ultimately—the rocky headlands of Cape Agulhas, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans become one.
Secret Season 2011
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With its sandy bays, rocky headlands, dunes, heaths, and broad expanses of green—all silhouetted against the Irish Sea and the blue-white peaks of Snowdonia—Anglesey offered some of the most lushly beautiful scenery to be found anywhere.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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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.
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Winds can, though, spill around the headlands and cliffs, catching unwary sailing crews off guard with unexpected gusts of wind.
Cowes weatherwatch 2011
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Large plants grew on the rim of the bay, and on the two headlands extending towards him.
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