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limestone

[ US /ˈɫaɪmˌstoʊn/ ]
[ UK /lˈa‍ɪmstə‍ʊn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals

How To Use limestone In A Sentence

  • The air smells like moist potting soil, the skin of potatoes… the damp chalk of limestone.
  • The other key aspect of the restoration involved repointing the exterior masonry, in the facades of limestone, sandstone, and granite.
  • And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
  • At Laufen (Oflag VII-C) and later at Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B—close to the limestone quarry where the first archaeopteryx remains had been found), he watched birds that came through the camp wire to breed. A Year on the Wing
  • In the Lower Devonian, ammonoids appeared, leaving us large limestone deposits from their shells.
  • I say this because in the mid distance is the Swinden Limestone Quarry, and they are removing one hill, and making another with the quarry tailings, and successfully grassing over the spoil and planting trees.
  • Quarry workers digging limestone had found bones that they thought were the remains of a bear. Times, Sunday Times
  • For that reason its exterior façade is made of limestone on the ground floor and an innovative terra-cotta cladding on the upper floors. The Seigle House by Lohan Anderson
  • The section consists of calcareous shale with intercalated sparse limestone beds, dolomitic shales, and some dolostone beds.
  • The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
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