How to Use concretion in a Sentence

concretion

noun
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  • If there’s one concretion with fossils inside, there’s got to be more.
    — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Over 200 concretions have been located at the wreck site.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • The bone fragment that was found at the site of the Whydah shipwreck was removed from a large concretion in February.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Rhinoliths are stone-like concretions formed by the gradual buildup of salts around things not normally found in the nose.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Most of the concretion that remains is in the interior, but even that is being peeled away to reveal gears, cranks, and some surprises—like a human tooth.
    — Arden Dier, Fox News, 9 June 2017
  • The complete shape of sharks could be represented in the fossils, Colleary said, because of the way they were encased in a mineral formation called a concretion.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But paleontologists can also search for concretions, or rocks that form around cores of ancient bone.
    — National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2019
  • As calcite is a somewhat soluble mineral, the concretions weather away, leaving the holes.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Preserved in hardened concretions of stone lie the remains of turtles, crocodiles, and most of all, mammals that lived in this place during the first million years after the terrible impact that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
  • This fossil was preserved in a concretion—a sedimentary structure that tends to form around fossil material—and was discovered by chance at the end of a frustratingly fruitless series of digs.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
  • Patients suffering from the concretions typically present with a variety of symptoms, including nasal obstruction, headaches, facial pain and discharge from the nose.
    — Matthew Robinson, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But gemologists traffic in precious pearls, and discard the rest with a pejorative classification: calcium-carbonate concretions.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018

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