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Sandstone in sentence

22 examples of Sandstone in a sentence

It was then, after such hard work and many frustrating years that we found Selam, and you see the face here covered by sandstone.
And here is actually the spinal column and the whole torso encased in a sandstone block, because she was buried by a river.
Here is a close-up of the fossil, after five years of cleaning, preparation and description, which was very long, as I had to expose the bones from the sandstone block I just showed you in the previous slide.
When we reject granite and limestone and sandstone and wood and copper and terra-cotta and brick and wattle and plaster, we simplify architecture and we impoverish cities.
My response is a sandstone wall made from bacteria and solidified sand, stretching across the desert.
Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone.
And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free.
This sandstone wall that I'm proposing essentially does three things.
It takes a pile of loose sand and it creates sandstone out of it.
So, we have a way of turning sand into sandstone, and then creating these habitable spaces inside of the desert dunes.
Now the wagon-gallery was constructed of wood; props of timber supported the roof, and made for the crumbly rock a screen of scaffolding, behind which one could see the plates of schist glimmering with mica, and the coarse masses of dull, rough sandstone.
Levaque, resting on his back, was swearing as he examined his left thumb which had been grazed by the fall of a piece of sandstone.
It was a double cube of red sandstone, but for this Tarvin could have taken it in bis arms it was full of white men.
The missionary's home, which was just without the city walls, was also of red sandstone, one story high, and as bare of vines, or any living thing, as the station at Rawut Junction.
As they rounded a curve in the main street of the city, a crowd was seen waiting at the foot of a night of red sandstone steps rising to the platform of a whitewashed house three stories in height, on which appeared the sign, "State Dispensary."
The slab of sandstone he had just quitted rolled over slowly as a porpoise rolls in the still sea, revealing for an instant a black chasm below.
The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendour from the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls.
The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless lining.
The beds of coal were separated by strata of sandstone or compact clays, and appeared crushed under the weight of overlying strata.
They had only to sharpen it on a piece of sandstone, then to raise the edge on a finer stone.
Now sandstone was abundant on the beach, and two hours after the stock of tools in the colony consisted of two sharp blades, which were easily fixed in solid handles.
They were forced to content themselves with those four stretches of rubble work, backed with sandstone, and a wretched stone gibbet, meagre and bare, on one side.