GRANITE in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for GRANITE, such as:
1. It was of no use to batter themselves against granite.
2. Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
3. What do you do if your suspect your granite is radioactive?
4. The face of the town was set against her as stonily as granite.
5. At the mention of Ashley's name, Scarlett's heart stood still, cold as granite within her.
2. Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
3. What do you do if your suspect your granite is radioactive?
4. The face of the town was set against her as stonily as granite.
5. At the mention of Ashley's name, Scarlett's heart stood still, cold as granite within her.
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Meanings and Examples of GRANITE
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granite
n. something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness)
n. plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.
2 High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
3 The face of the town was set against her as stonily as granite.
4 She went up the walk somehow, the arm she was holding as hard and steady as granite, communicating to her some courage.
5 At the mention of Ashley's name, Scarlett's heart stood still, cold as granite within her.
6 The jolly tombstone-yard, where a utilitarian sculptor in a red calfskin overcoat whistled as he hammered the shiniest of granite headstones.
7 Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
8 So they drove downtown and stopped before an imposing granite building, in which they interviewed an official, who had the papers all ready, with only the names to be filled in.
9 Before them there loomed an enormous granite pile, set far back from the street, and occupying a whole block.
10 Upon the right and left, I was walled in by granite warehouses of the widest dimensions, stowed to their utmost capacity with the necessaries and comforts of life.
11 It made a mad enthusiasm that, it seemed, would be incapable of checking itself before granite and brass.
12 It was of no use to batter themselves against granite.
13 It is the granite formation, which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains.
14 Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the gray boulders.
15 The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
Example Sentence:
1 I waded knee-deep in its dark growth; I turned with its turnings, and finding a moss-blackened granite crag in a hidden angle, I sat down under it.
2 What do you do if your suspect your granite is radioactive?