granite

How To Use granite In A Sentence

• The lower blocks are in concrete clad in gabions filled with site granite; roofs are planted with indigenous flora.
• The Cree syllabics on the glacial till granite boulder base say: ‘I am the big bear.’
• The other key aspect of the restoration involved repointing the exterior masonry, in the facades of limestone, sandstone, and granite.
• The valley ended in a perpendicular rim of granite.
• The granite peaks and sylvan hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains are the results of geological changes and metamorphosis over perhaps a billion year period of time.
• It is also a widespread constituent of a variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks and is occasionally found in pegmatites and in related veins marginal to igneous rock units ranging from granite to diabase.
• The island temple will have all-granite handcrafted panels.
• According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House. The Mysterious Island
• He installed a granite gravestone engraved on one side with solemn portraits, and on the other with a tender group picture. Times, Sunday Times
• A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.