[
UK
/ɹˈɒk/
]
[ US /ˈɹɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɑk/ ]
NOUN
- United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
How To Use Rock In A Sentence
- An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
- The snow relented and we were back to a rocky descending path.
- The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
- Lift your feet a few inches off the floor and slowly rock backwards and forwards. Healthy By Nature
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- The softer rock has been weathered away into soil.
- The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
- When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today