How to Use geode in a Sentence

geode

noun
Definition of geodenext
  • It’s like a geode cracked open with facets within facets.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
  • There's a huge panel painting of what appears to be a big shiny geode.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 May 2018
  • The science part comes in when a child holds a geode in his or her hand and starts wondering how it was formed.
    — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Keep that red wine fresh with these cute, handmade geode stoppers.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Huge, glittering chunks of geode lined the dirty window.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The giant amethyst geode is misleading seeing as how those aren't found in the cave nor this part of the country.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The main heat is built around geodes, a drab rock that doesn't show its inner beauty until cracked open.
    — Ed Stockly, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Soleil’s glance alights upon an altar-like cluster of geodes, crystals and tea lights on the corner of the bar.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2013
  • Worst set: The giant, gaudy geode-from-outer-space sparkles framing the stage at the Dolby Theatre.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2018
  • With its creamy white palette punctuated by the glow of sparkling geodes and brass frames, the room exudes the calm and magic of a snow globe.
    — Martin Bourne, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
  • Geode Wine Stoppers Keep that red wine fresh with these cute, handmade geode stoppers.
    — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 11 May 2018
  • The scenes of his marginalization are painful and true — always the pebble, never the geode in games of Pebble, Pebble, Geode.
    — Karen Valby, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Thank you for this astute reading of the different strategies in geode.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The cake was adorned with candy crystals made from scratch, arranged in a geode formation.
    — Mary Colurso, AL.com, 1 May 2018
  • This set of two sparkling catch-all boxes has an eye-catching geode print with splashy foil detailing.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Although the geode is embedded in rocks that are about 250 million years old, the crystals themselves are much younger than that.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The giant geode’s hollow core was formed by large gas bubbles in the magma that poured out from fractures in the Earth’s crust about 135 million years ago.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This geode-like pastel bottle will keep drinks ice cold through the sunniest of Easter egg hunts.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Guru Jagat takes a seat onstage between a laptop and a dogbed-size amethyst geode.
    — Vogue, 15 Oct. 2017
  • To finish, a light trace of gold or metallic details along the main bands elevates the look and gives it that classic geode finish.
    — Lottie Winter, Glamour, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The geode cakes start at $3,500 and go up in price depending on detail, complexity, and size.
    — Billboard Style, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2017
  • A fig is not actually a fruit but a geode of inward-looking flowers.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Designed by Derek McLane — who is returning to the show for the sixth time — the Oscars stage will be surrounded by a proscenium that's meant to look like the inside of a geode.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Although the cave is now dry, when the geode was growing, its cavity was filled with hot, mineral-rich water.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2019
  • For many geodes, though, the basic science is somewhat similar.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Inside her bag was a notebook, a day planner, a lot of heart stickers, a jumble of colored pens, one very bright flashlight, index cards, a small box of tea, and a geode.
    — Jackie Frere, Redbook, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Inset geode halves, turquoise cabochons along with seed beads of black, blue, turquoise, white and gray fill the contours of an otherwise ghostly type figure - the hollow skull of a longhorn bull’s head.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2017
  • Crystal Cave is actually the world's largest geode, discovered in 1897 by workers who were building a well.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Her stepfather was in the oil business and his collection of geodes and minerals hold court with photos of the family and a sketch of her mother as a young woman.
    — John G. Bloodsworth, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The owner also noted that the amethyst geodes in the gift shop are not from Wisconsin, because Wisconsin doesn't have the variety of rocks that places in the world have, but the rock's origin is noted next to it.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2019

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