How to Use sedimentary in a Sentence

sedimentary

adjective
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  • Some of the lake water seeped into the rich soil, then trickled through the pores of the sedimentary rock.
    — Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The NSB contains some of the oldest layers of sedimentary rock in the world.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The statue was carved from limestone, a sedimentary rock not found in the area.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Any fossils found in the sedimentary rock must be younger than the ash below and older than the ash above.
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020
  • At one turn, his path was blocked by a large boulder, a hunk of sedimentary rock.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The stones range from 7 to 14 feet in height and are composed of flagstone and sandstone, both types of sedimentary rock.
    — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
  • What might look like a group of tiny cells could be some kind of sedimentary structure.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Over eons, the softer sedimentary rocks around the immense bulge of hard stone washed away.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But for me, this novel, even more so than The God of Small Things probably, is like a sedimentary rock.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
  • The record-low water levels are exposing sedimentary rocks that haven’t been seen since the 1930s when the Hoover Dam was built and Lake Mead filled.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Chert is a subgroup of sedimentary rock and includes flint, opal, and jasper.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The Mars rover's current focus is drilling cores and examing the sedimentary rocks around the delta area.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • On top of it, a layer of sedimentary rock rich in iron ore formed nearly two billion years ago, when the region was ocean floor.
    — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Around 20 million years ago, as the Arabian plate drove under the Eurasian, a belt of sedimentary rock lunged, as fast as rock can lunge, into the Miocene air.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • This fossil was found in 1999 at the site of a sedimentary basin in northwest Madagascar.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Further, as the researchers note, layers of light-colored volcanic ash can be found buried in the sedimentary rock.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • Over the eons, the Medusae Fossae Formation steadily eroded as winds swept over the soft red sedimentary rock.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2018
  • The fossil was trapped in sedimentary rock that had hardened when lava flows caked and baked the Isle of Skye during the Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago.
    — National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2016
  • The fossil was trapped in sedimentary rock that had hardened when lava flows caked and baked the Isle of Skye during the Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2016
  • London is a city where era is piled upon era, like sedimentary rock.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The rocks in the delta are most likely sedimentary, trapping and preserving precious layers of silt from the river that once flowed into the crater's lake.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • If such sedimentary rock was ever there, it’s gone now.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The diagonal layers etched across the base of Mount Sharp appear very similar to the sedimentary rock strata of the Grand Canyon.
    — Tanya Lewis, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2012
  • Onderdonk said that layers of sedimentary rock in the area are tilted toward the sea.
    — Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This one-mile loop will take you past the multicolored sedimentary rock layers of Blue Mesa.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Outside the crater, sedimentary rocks lie on top of deeper granites, but this relationship is flipped in the peak ring.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 27 May 2020
  • The sedimentary layers banding the rock were a reminder that the Aral’s retreat is a small-scale echo of a more titanic draining.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Bighorn Lake is a fisherman’s paradise as well as a watery highway that allows you to float through gorges in the shadow of 1,000-foot walls of sedimentary rock.
    — Amy Tara Koch, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • The bones were in the Morrison Formation, an expanse of sedimentary rock centered in Colorado and Wyoming that also extends into parts of 11 other states.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 July 2024
  • Encouraged by their find, the team conducted more fieldwork across South and Central America and found nine new species of fossil grape seeds trapped within sedimentary rocks.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 July 2024

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