How to Use metamorphic in a Sentence

metamorphic

adjective
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  • By the time the storms ended, two massive craters had been scoured into the metamorphic rock.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The soils are mostly slate, making this one the few regions in the world where Pinot Noir vines are grown in metamorphic soils.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Pleistocene Epoch ice sheets once covered the ancient metamorphic rocks of the shield.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2014
  • It’s a metamorphic rock called schist, compressed by mountains thought to have once been as tall as the Himalayas.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • All around him, eras of the country’s past are shoved together like layers of metamorphic rock.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In just a few short years, Vogue cover girl Zendaya has churned out a lifetime’s worth of metamorphic beauty looks.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 9 May 2019
  • The streaming company now finds itself on the edge of a metamorphic moment.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The metamorphic dance continues, and with it the loneliness.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Ten thousand people live in the town that looks out at Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite peak topping out at 2,421 feet.
    — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 6 June 2017
  • Soapstone is a metamorphic rock, composed mostly of the mineral talc, and has been used for carving for thousands of years.
    — oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The metamorphic rock covers a poolside cabinet station, which is plumbed and wired.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Exposed metamorphic rocks in the Mojave National Preserve date back as far as 2.5 billion years, roughly half the age of the planet.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In Kansas and Oklahoma, the faults are in deep igneous and metamorphic rocks just beneath the sandstone layer used by the injection wells.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic, perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The Cancer new moon enters you into a time of metamorphic transition.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • But the top 3,000 feet—the mountain's peak—is actually harder and older metamorphic rock.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2018
  • The huge quantities of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the Appalachian Mountains mean that the power grids sitting atop them will suffer greatly the next time the sun gets its rage on.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • The end result is to turn a fully mature cell back into something resembling a stem cell, with all the metamorphic powers that entails.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The day before the full moon, metamorphic Pluto turns direct, ending the planetary moonwalk that began on April 29.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Thus, after the Capitol was burned during the War of 1812, reconstruction made use of marble — a harder, metamorphic rock found on the upper Potomac.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The person with knowledge of the matter said that the group’s name derived from the metamorphic rock, signaling the group’s intent to be enduring and maintain a clarity of purpose.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The person with knowledge of the matter said the group’s name derived from the metamorphic rock, signaling the group’s intent to be enduring and maintain a clarity of purpose.
    — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In life and work alike, his contradictions are pressed together like layers in metamorphic rock.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The British actress Andrea Riseborough is one of those metamorphic changelings so different from film to film, role to role, that few people realize she’s even out there.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • Granite gneiss, a metamorphic rock found in the Lower Hudson Valley, was sourced from the land and used to create home’s unique interior rock wall, as well as the three wood-burning fireplaces throughout the home.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The researchers think the carbonate moved in long after the sediment had turned to rock, during that chemical-swapping metamorphic stage.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
  • No planet has the complex melange of volcanic rocks, sediment, metamorphic rocks and cooled magma that are Earth's continents.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • To create these designs, artists first paint on a liquid lip color base coat, then meticulously add swirls and cracks in different hues to mimic the metamorphic rock.
    — Kelsi Zimmerman, Marie Claire, 2 May 2017
  • At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • When trying to learn about mountains that are long gone or have already eroded significantly, geologists look for clues in the way the rock layers are slanted in the dirt and what kinds of metamorphic rocks are at the base.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 8 Nov. 2021

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