granite
Example Sentences
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Iran’s “regime was trying to reconstitute its weapons program at a different site” before the war, he said, “protected by granite.”
The former Park Service employee claims free speech violations after organizing climbers for the display at El Capitan granite formation.
She set off down a shadowed path, wandering alone past obelisks, stone angels, and granite buildings in this city of the dead.
From Literature
Canadian women's skip Rachel Holman was pinged for a double-touch, as was Team GB's Bobby Lammie - both incidents not deliberate and the case of a lingering figure falling on to the granite.
From BBC
Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
