massy

Example Sentences

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Indeed, Stonehenge’s massy blocks seem irresistible to copyists: a website, Clonehenge, charts replicas made of everything from cars and lava-lamps to vegetables and gingerbread.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019

Those macroscopic rules, he said, stemmed from the systematic combination of microscopic bodies: solid, massy and hard, as Isaac Newton had put it in a phrase Dalton was fond of quoting.

From Nature • Aug. 30, 2016

The result was a uniquely conversational and approachable kind of sculpture, quite free from the massy rhetoric of bulge and handmade texture that a younger generation of English artists found oppressive in Moore's work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only then did the Linz police, urged on by excited Socialists, climb and sweat up the hill to the massy gate of Schloss Waxenberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the petulant mouth, the long neck, the buggy eyes, the massy hair.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly