How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun
Definition of limestonenext
Synonyms for limestonenext
  • The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
    — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • This comes from vineyards in Touraine, on soils of clay, limestone and flint (the prized silex of the Loire Valley).
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The left side of the road is a sheer cut of rock, quartzite, phyllite, and limestone laid bare by dynamite.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The limestone rocks, many of them as tall as a school bus, are thought to be the remains of an ancient forest.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Use this sudden pause near rocks, logs, limestone ledges, and drop-offs.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The basin, believed to date back to the Byzantine era, housed the smiling sphinx statue, carved from limestone.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • There would be no way to savor the gloomy shadows; the cool, smooth limestone; or the mineral tang of rock and earth.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The legs of an outdoor table, carved from limestone, resemble the trunk of a palm tree.
    — Gisela Williams Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The use of fly ash as a feedstock eliminates the need to use limestone at all, let alone to superheat it.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Stalks of yellow wheat bend in the wind; clouds tumble across the sky; the purplish-blue limestone hills known as the Alpilles undulate in the distance.
    — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Add some ground limestone in the fall to acidic soil around your lilac to raise the pH, which allows more nutrients to be available to your lilac.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Above us, what was once dense jungle has been reduced to a strip of exposed limestone, with stumps in place of where trees once stood.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Blarney Castle dates to 1446, and there’s a slab of carboniferous limestone near the top.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The full-beam, main-deck master suite has a fold-down balcony, lounge area and two bathrooms finished in limestone.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The tomb, carved into limestone bedrock, is estimated to be about 2,300 years old, said Haaretz.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The area was made famous by Sharma, and both ascents span 60 feet up orange limestone over the water.
    — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • About two thirds of the clinker emissions are released by the limestone when heated while the rest come from the combustion of fuels to create the heat.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • These iconic limestone structures are one of the lake’s main attractions.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Home to some of the state's most beautiful parks, this Hill Country region is known for its limestone bluffs, deep canyons, and bald cypress.
    — Karla Pope, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, they were made of compressed wood chips bound with a mixture of limestone and cement or with a fungus called mycelium.
    — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • As the limestone cliffs of the Mediterranean coastline rose to meet us, the father and son beside me pressed their faces to the window and spoke excitedly in rapid French.
    — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • The kids at BroSis have taken to calling the building Wakanda because the facade’s jagged mash-up of glass and limestone reminds them of a shield.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Azul gray limestone and wood flooring with radiant heating spread across the home.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The sandstone and limestone buildings pay homage to the thriving Pueblo communities that lived and traded there.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Thorntons spent close to a half-million dollars to move the house, built of extremely heavy Joliet limestone.
    — Carol Flynn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023

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