granite

Example Sentences

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Two teams take turns to slide granite stones down a 45m-plus sheet of ice towards a target, with those 20kg stones accompanied on their journey by two players brushing furiously.

From BBC

There is Sadako, standing on top of a granite mountain of paradise.

From Literature

He works installing granite countertops, and has paid nearly $11,000 in legal fees for his family's visa applications, but the process has dragged on for nearly three years.

From Barron's

He turned to the wall with a face impassive as granite.

From Literature

Honnold is renowned for being the first person to climb El Capitan, the vertical granite cliff in California's Yosemite national park - also without ropes or safety gear.

From BBC