How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun
Definition of limestonenext
  • The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The pendant lights are by Serge Mouille and the floor is made of three types of limestone.
    — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
  • The name Jewett House is etched in limestone above the front door, Prince John said.
    — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Sandstone turned to sand and limestone cracked, crumbling the very old and the not very old at all alike.
    — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • 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 marl and limestone bluffs are steep; the wood of the oaks is disconcertingly dark, the scrub spiny.
    — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
  • The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
    — Ike Morgan | [email protected], 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 best way to increase the pH of your soil is to use garden lime, which is made from crushed dolomitic limestone.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The Beckers shipped ore and limestone to Pittsburgh steel mills.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The 100-acre park started as the site of a natural limestone cave.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
  • Outside the living room is a path in Madras gray limestone.
    — Pilar Viladas, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
  • 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 trail is made from compacted with crushed limestone.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The researchers found the remains in a limestone cave on the eastern side of the Indonesian part of Borneo.
    — Mckenzie Prillaman, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Pieces of engraved columns and limestone slabs were all that remained of the Temple of Zeus.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Deep in southern France, near the small town of Malataverne, is a limestone cave called Grotte Mandrin.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
  • The abrasive limestone was one of the most challenging aspects of Rayu.
    — Sasha Digiulian, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Eventually, the buoy is meant to break down, with the limestone dissolving and the wood and kelp drifting to the bottom of the seafloor.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • This stunning 215-foot-tall limestone arch was carved over many years by babbling Cedar Creek.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Benjamin Moore customized the paint color to match the limestone.
    — Andrew Sessa, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024

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