bedrock
Example Sentences
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BOISE, Idaho—Each afternoon at around 4:30, the earth here shakes from a series of controlled explosions, as engineers blast through basalt bedrock to flatten out the ground underneath a gigantic new semiconductor factory.
High-profile love that ends in tragic death is, of course, a bedrock of storytelling, but this “Love Story” purports to have a higher calling.
From Los Angeles Times
Oil shale, or blaze as it is sometimes known in Scotland, is a material that was historically mined from the bedrock.
From BBC
It's become the legal bedrock of federal efforts to rein in emissions, especially in vehicles.
From BBC
"This organisation provides stability and predictability," she added, hailing that "in spite of all the knocks, it is still the bedrock for so much of world trade".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
