How To Use Weathered In A Sentence

The softer rock has been weathered away into soil.
The rough-hewn boards of the boathouse were grey and weathered. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
Religious publications also appear to have weathered the downturn in religious practice.
Vicky Fox, a towering transwoman with yellow hair and brown skin, hurls herself dramatically onto the floor and begins contorting about on the weathered tile when I ask to take her picture. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Plant leans forward, vast swathes of hair tumbling down on either side of his weathered face. Times, Sunday Times

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The unit is an orange/red-weathered ignimbrite, which is generally massive and strongly feldsparphyric.
The investigator then pressed his face against the weathered boarding, his eye even with the hole.
Old timbers are weathered and darker and provide warmth and intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
They wore chaps criss-crossed with scars from needle sharp cactus, their hats were badly weathered, having survived many suns, winds and rains.
The materials used on the exteriors give the house a pleasing, weathered appearance.
Economists now fear that the vagaries of the weather could wreck a national economy that has weathered the financial storms of the global credit crisis relatively unscathed. Times, Sunday Times
The surface of the conch seems to possess a layer of intensively weathered shell, and no feature that could be reasonably interpreted as growth lines is present.
Chemical weathering involves the alteration of the chemical and mineralogical composition of the weathered material. Weathering
He must have been young at that time, since he only appeared barely over forty years of age, despite a weathered face and body.
The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
Just don't complain if the soup has a weathered, grainy texture. Times, Sunday Times
On them we found the only gravel bed we saw in Labrador, and yet their name is due to the rough piled basaltic appearing rock, that proved on close examination to be much weathered sienite and granite. Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
They sat on the back porch as morning breathed a frosty zephyr across the weathered planking.
A few hours later, an elderly man wakes his wife up with the aroma wafting from their weathered percolator.
Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle.
He is in his late 20s with a weathered face.
He was elderly by combat aircrew standards and his balding head and weathered face singled him out from the others. Bomber
There is, however, with us, an inclination to apply this word particularly to those purer and more compact sorts which are adapted for fuel, while to the lighter, less decomposed or more weathered kinds, and to those which are considerably intermixed with soil or silt, the term muck or swamp muck is given. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
Red House today stands secluded behind a pleasantly weathered red-brick wall surrounded by a forest of bungalows and semi-detached houses.
Throughout his high school years in the nearby town of Bay Minette, he weathered the taunts and teases of classmates for being gay.
The coral reef horizon is 19 m thick and, based on observation of weathered exposures of some of the massive and ramose coral colonies, it probably had a meter or more of relief on its surface at the peak of reef development.
The amphibolite is mostly medium grained, rather schistose and has a characteristic reddish hue on weathered surfaces.
While most people consider chalk to be white in colour, when weathered it can be grey and red (due to iron staining).
It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped.
The pilot who weathered the storm tossed off great bumpers of spiritual port; the shade of Dundas did not leave the ghost of a heeltap. Vanity Fair
Hunter-gatherer societies, for example, weathered more ups and downs in food availability.
The fuselage dope and paint is all cracked and weathered making the craft look very authentic.
Now a white-haired man with weathered skin and palms coarsened by years of handling paint and chemicals, he seems more willing to discuss the influences on his life and work.
It was a grand old house, with weathered shingles and brightly painted gables and nautical touches everywhere, and it had been there forever. Rick Horowitz: After the Debt Deal: Drifting Away on Lake Parable
They certainly haven't ignored technology, but the use of instruments like banjo, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ enhances the weathered folk feel of the music.
Every one also has easels standing tall, accompanied by a weathered table speckled with paint and sporting a paintbox and palettes.
Here, the flagger was a lean, weathered, smiling old man, who seemed to really be enjoying the cooler days this week. Grouse Diary Entry
The fine sandy and silty loams are formed from weathered Oligocene and Miocene sandstone (Ogallala and Arikaree Formations, and upper White River Groups). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Their weathered faces, full of character, look down upon Lee as he fixes a bridle.
The latter proved to be built on top of weathered ophiolitic melange. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Hadrian & Antoninus Pius Sanctuary Report 5
The country has successfully weathered the painful transition from authoritarianism to participatory government.
In recent years the defense and aerospace giant has weathered operational snafus, ethical scandals, criminal convictions, and abrupt executive departures.
That would mean that we have successfully weathered the transition upon which we have only just embarked. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
If your fence begins to look a little weathered, consider giving it a coat of paint or wood stain to bring it back to life. Times, Sunday Times
The wind and sea have weathered the rocks quite smooth.
Higher, steeper slopes of the Vosges have thin topsoil, with subsoils of weathered gneiss, granite, sandstone, schist, and volcanic sediments.
That would mean that we have successfully weathered the transition upon which we have only just embarked. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
The weathered speedboats line up along three small piers every morning, right next to large police boats that patrol the strait.
She hoped to create a wall faux-roughed by decades of wear -- patches of weathered concrete plus bricks both grouted and un -, painted-over and crumbling. Galleries: Old is new at Touchstone; Rebecca Key turns back time at Transformer
Unweathered specimens are snow-white and constitute exquisite specimens when associated with contrasting minerals.
Now it appears that the industry has weathered the storm. Times, Sunday Times
From soaring aqueducts, deep tunnels and locks, to weathered stone showing signs of towing lines, some well-known, others not, the network offers visitors an evolving museum on their doorsteps.
The brick has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown.
Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés.
Though made of bronze, "Many Glacier" was constructed originally out of twisted, weathered, "stray, downed pieces of wood," which the artist collects on her Montana ranch and in Hawaii; and the ghostly, whitewashed sculpture—a controlled state of collapse—suggests stone, petrified wood and a scrapheap of bones. Soaring Heights, A Sense of Horses
The source of the conglomerate is believed to have been southerly, where an unweathered friable rhyolite was water-transported with minor abrasion.
Also, given our increasing health and longevity, a monogamous union that has weathered well is the best retirement plan. Times, Sunday Times
The ore itself had to be weathered before sluicing in a process similar to gold placering, in which dirt was washed through sluice boxes so that heavier elements-like gold and sapphires-dropped to the bottom and became lodged in riffles.
a house of weathered shingles
Love that has weathered storms can be strong again. The Sun
His ships weathered the storm, sailed west and reached Honduras in Central America.
Little by little, she was making repairs, yet trying to maintain the authentic feel of the place, using older, more weathered wood.
The fossil bone was almost the same color as the stone, though I recall the unweathered parts being purplish and the more weathered surfaces being almost white. One of those WoW things.
Scott Wolf has weathered many a storm in his brief but eventful acting career.
Little-weathered grains of hypersthene and rare clasts of limestone persist throughout the profile, as evidence for limited chemical weathering.
The lining, pure silk, may be dropping off out of old age, but the thick, weathered wool still does its job.
At its base rested a small, weathered plaque with a few words elegantly etched into the fine stone.
The long time during which the continental interiors had been subaerially weathered and lowered by erosion was succeeded by one of progressive flooding and coverage by shallow seas.
The stone mason has started work on the first cone and has even provided some weathered stones from his own private store.
Rock is weathered by the action of ice and changes in temperature.
We pull up in front of a weathered frame house tucked behind a real-estate office on a busy main road.
He is believed to be in his late 20s and he is said to have a weathered, worn face.
Despite their short stature, there was a brute solidity about them, their large, thick-fingered hands those of stonecutters and labourers, their tough, weathered skin that of a people toughened by the elements.
York weathered the onslaught and their stylised and pacey three-quarters in turn began to threaten.
Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid.
It was made up of rocks ranging from fist size up to giant boulders, tumbled haphazardly, their sharp edges unweathered in the still air. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
Measurements were taken over 200 second intervals on vertical faces which had had as much loose scree and weathered material removed as possible.
I was trying to make sure that we weathered the onslaught of the Asian economic crisis.
Rusty sediments pond in shallow depressions between the weathered gray curves of basalt pillows.
Now its weathered walls contrast with white window frames; the old front door discovered beneath the iron again opens to the hills and bays below.
Ancient deposits of weathered volcanic ash containing the special healing mud known as montmorillonite have been found on a farm 15 km east of Northampton.
His hair is slightly styled and swept back from his weathered face. Times, Sunday Times
There's a sense that the rock has weathered differently in different places.
He touched the photograph with a scarred and weathered handa strange contrast to the neat spotlessness of his tweed cuffs. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
Lesser things ran inside and outside, and tickled my skin until the light in my eyes fell to shutters and the back of my brain met it's front where darkness came, and darkness shivered, in the shallow pool of my unconsciousness where God looms and Hell calls in short bellows, slow cups, and weathered coughs. Burt Reynolds, the pig, and me.
The man had a worn, weathered face, he might have been a fisherman or a villager; he looked hard-up, in his frayed overcoat. COUP D'ETAT
In spring its fruit trees blossomed against the weathered red brick of the asylum walls. Times, Sunday Times
Their vegetation, mostly scrub pine, is noticeably weathered from the fierce storms that punish this area.
These specimens were mostly weathered out from dark gray, argillaceous limestones.
Throughout his high school years in the nearby town of Bay Minette, he weathered the taunts and teases of classmates for being gay.
Now it appears that the industry has weathered the storm. Times, Sunday Times
He was a broad-shouldered, bluff man, his hair cropped short and curly above his weathered face. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Those who have weathered the storms of life are often rewarded with a good life. Dr T.P.Chia
In the past couple of years, they have weathered a series of setbacks for the Finnish nickel miner. Times, Sunday Times
The calcareous skeletons of this distinctive species have weathered out from the limestone matrix.
That would mean that we have successfully weathered the transition upon which we have only just embarked. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Rusty sediments pond in shallow depressions between the weathered gray curves of basalt pillows.
Anglo-American air power relations have successfully weathered serious political tensions because leaders have focused on strategic goals.
LaBarbera weathered that storm, but Daniel Sedin banged home a rebound from just outside the crease with 59 seconds left on Greene's penalty. USATODAY.com
The timber cladding on the outside is untreated and has taken on a bleached, silvery colour as it has weathered.
Therefore, the mountains are young and unweathered; the terrain is rugged and dissected, with north-south-oriented ranges that reach south, toward the central plains of Myanmar. Northern Triangle temperate forests
Old, his face was weathered and wrinkled, but he always had a smile for the strange woman and her sporadic emotional outbursts.
Amongst the materials I found a fine yellow sandstone-grit and a nummulite so weathered that the shells stood out in strong relief. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it! The Silver Spoon
On either side were workingmen's houses, of weathered wood, the ancient paint grimed with the dust of years, conspicuous only for cheapness and ugliness. CHAPTER I
The planes were weathered out at Shanghai airport.
I'm looking for an inn called Hamamatsu‑‑that's a name with really common characters, ‘beach 'and‘pine tree'‑‑and there it is right there,” John said triumphantly, pointing to a weathered plastic sign hanging in front of a nondescript house. Relativity
They are white and weathered, the horns cracked and bleached by the snows and frosts, and the rains and heats of many winters and summers.
But he appears to have weathered the transition well, and this team should be stronger in the second half as it continues to jell.
Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez). Cover to Cover
Characteristic: Blue green monocline crystallization, dissolve it in water, glycerin, does not allow it in the ethanol, There is corrosive, deliquescence in weathered.
Queer runes and letterings were scratched across the wallpaper, which was tarnished and weathered with age.
His face, though unweathered and unseamed, and much too fine and thin in texture, had a curious affinity to the faces of old sailors or fishermen who have lived Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
Perhaps the most common medium for landslides is colluvium — basically particles of weathered rock in the process of becoming soil. The Liquid Earth
It probably originated from the nearby volcano of Gölcük (ca 10 km north of Sagalassos), rather than as a weathered ophiolitic melange as previously suggested. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Near the Theater Report 8
A weathered old hut
In a small fishing village in Cuba, Santiago, an old, weathered fisherman has just gone 84 days without catching a fish.
Randy Eckert, owner of the old Steltzenriede property, stands in the loft of his old, weathered barn.
Where does all this suave urbanity leave the true, ocker Aussie, the weathered stockman riding along in the outback with his trusty sheepdog, always ready for a few tinnies and a bloody good chunder?
A less common form is known as the pinnacled berg, and in almost every case this is a tabular berg which has been weathered or has capsized. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Colluvium Recent weathered material or hill wash transported by gravity.
Jack thought they had weathered the worst of it, when the foresheet parted and the clew of the foresail, going through the lower foretopsail, split it in ribbons. Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
We drove up on a group of islanders in front of a row of weathered houses built against an outcropped rock. Miracles, Inc.
Father Goose is a fun film and Grant and Caron make a plausible pair of potential lovers, as long as you accept that she’s playing a few years older than her real age so that she’s closer to forty than thirty and he’s playing a guy in his late forties, somewhat weathered by the tropical sun and rusting from the inside out thanks to his heavy drinking. Time catches up with all of us, even Cary Grant
The only sound was the occasional creak of the weathered ropes straining to hold out weight.
The visitor is drawn into the building between huge weathered industrial Corten steel wings.
A tool to scrape away weathered surfaces of rocks will expose fresh surfaces for close-up study.
Take comfort in the fact that Richmond has been around for over 5,000 years and has successfully weathered countless earthquakes.
More encouragingly, having weathered the storm, the Minstermen set about establishing a foothold in the game.
Ahead lies Bynack's shapely summit ridge of weathered granite.
Even the old washer-woman, though her features be hooded and in weathered high-relief, has to retire to her humble quarters and stop laundering.
A small, semicircular tunnel with two entrances had been weathered out of the soft rock.
You will get to know the store well: the buffalo-hide carpet; a stiff pair of black riding boots by the door; and some beautiful casual clothes, such as cherry-red corduroys and navy cardigans, folded on top of a weathered picnic table. Ode to Handsome
It has a gorgeous marble chequerboard floor, varnished walls which ape the patina of age, weathered-looking mirrors, soft but stylish chrome lighting, candles, flowers and retro jazz playing in the background.
The upland terraces and mountains of the Guayana Shield are remnants of highly weathered and ancient parent material consisting mostly of quartzitic or sandstone rocks, although granitic rock types persist in some areas. Guayanan Highlands moist forests
The French media kept the weathered faces of the disgruntled farmers in the press for months.
His hands were rough and weathered against her smooth, soft skin, but he was gentle when binding the shoulder wound.
He weathered the Depression at sea on his purser's salary, regularly making port calls in newly Nazified Germany, where he saw Adolf Hitler in a hotel lobby, he said. Frank Buckles, last known World War I veteran, dies at 110
The bricks had been weathered and the stone and brickwork needed repairing.
Where Jack's face was weathered from the salt air, Eliza's skin was barely touched by the sun and her hair was lightly tinged with blond.
Outside was a sheep pen and a weathered orange taxi.
The soils are developed on weathered materials derived from sandstone, shale, and limestone.
It is weathered from multiple readings, with pages smudged from my greasy fingers.
Hand-trenching tied at least some of these float samples into un-deformed quartz veins within the weathered bedrock schist, which is covered in the area by 0.5 to 12.55 m of overburden. NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
The soils are formed from materials weathered from arkosic sedimentary rock, gravelly alluvium, and redbed shales and sandstone. Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)
I love old graveyards, especially when the stones are weathered and covered in lichen or ivy. PhotoHunter: In Memory « Mudpuddle
After the Celtics weathered the early game storm with a spurt of their own, they owned a 40-35 second-quarter lead when the Lakers turned on their afterburners. One Season
It bounced once on the weathered shiplap floor of the porch, rolled off the top step and banged on the stair below, then stopped. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
These two have weathered the storm while sketch comedy has gone out of fashion. Times, Sunday Times
A covered breezeway, built in the same weathered brick as the house itself, with three small arches mimicking the grander front entrance. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Maxim weathered court cases that accused him of misdeeds ranging from patent infringement to trigamy. The Gun
His skin, as always, had the weathered tan of the outdoorsman. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
A new, weathered-looking stucco wall accented with an aged wood-and-iron gate hides the old fence.
‘We have successfully weathered the most difficult times in recent years,’ chairman and managing director Lo Yuk-sui said.
Northern Ireland weathered the recession better than any other region in the UK.
The corals are inseparable from the matrix of the rocks and generally badly weathered on the exposed surfaces and recrystallized internally.
The last of his schools, Catholic-run St Francis Xavier's College, is still there; a weathered 1950s building.
Resembling a natural history museum, the dimly lit central gallery was lined with 13 steel-and-glass vitrines, each containing a weathered stone tablet.
The calcareous skeletons of this distinctive species have weathered out from the limestone matrix.
Sometimes iron sulfides have weathered, staining the quartz an orange color, both on the surface and within the crystals themselves.
“That is why we wanted to drill deeper, below the water table and recover unweathered rocks.” Deep-sea Rocks Point To Early Oxygen On Earth | Impact Lab
The only noise that came to me was from the soles of my boots brushing against the wild grass growing on the weathered road.
Weathered columns frame the arched doorway, leading the eye up past more columns to the facade.
Seated at the weathered picnic table, we wrote notes to their mother.
We weathered the financial crisis extremely well and increased profits last year. Times, Sunday Times
Now almost at his foot he noticed the weathered flat surface of a scapula, broken off below the shoulder joint. A THIEF OF TIME
Two miles from his grandmother's hogan was a weathered volcanic upthrust which the People avoided. LISTENING WOMAN
Gates of bamboo or weathered wood will typically let you know where you're not welcome.
Bleaching agents can be applied that will give the decking a silvered weathered look.
Over the years, the paint has weathered and faded.
The weathered minerals of the regolith, together with an admixture of organic matter and water, make up the soil.
We weathered the financial crisis extremely well and increased profits last year. Times, Sunday Times
Having weathered years of outdoor existence, they have the added allure of holding their value. Times, Sunday Times
These two have weathered the storm while sketch comedy has gone out of fashion. Times, Sunday Times
We all trudged down to The Hazards, which are a chain of weathered granite domes.
The house itself was much like the Senator himself - square, weathered, old, well-preserved, immaculately tended, and solid. A RODENT OF DOUBT
The only noise that came to me was from the soles of my boots brushing against the wild grass growing on the weathered road.
There is a an exquisite, unweathered quality to a well-trained childrens' chorus that is inimitable, which is probably why so much church music has been written for their perfect soprano voices over the centuries. Inauguration Day in Civic Center
The subscript O and W identify the unweathered and weathered states.
Now everything I had left to my name fit neatly into two weathered brown suitcases, which I had to borrow, no less, from a friend across the hall, because the thieves had efficiently used my own suitcases to haul away my things. Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin
That would mean that we have successfully weathered the transition upon which we have only just embarked. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
As the hair fiber ages and gets weathered by exposure to pollution and through washing so the cuticle layer loses its shiny appearance and the cuticle scales flake away from the hair shaft.
The British economy over the same period grew by 2.8% and has weathered the recent downturn better.
A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best.
Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers. James Joyce
The country had weathered a serious crisis.
For the record, I have weathered the storm of Glee from the beginning and it's not always easy to come back to the show, but every time I think about giving it up, they have a lovely moment like the intercutting of "One Hand, One Heart" with the sexual material at the end of the episode or "Somewhere" reconceived as a mother-daughter duet a few episodes back. Ask Matt: Big Bang, Grey's, Glee, Terra Nova and More!
The rock has weathered away into soil.
Picasso frequently played flamenco on the weathered guitar - until the man who taught him how to play asked the artist to pay up for his services.
Mind you, it didn't really matter that much, because you had Hutton's battered, weathered calm and Mark Sheppard's intelligent bastardry to make up for it. LEVERAGE: The Second David Job
The canvases seem to have arisen from excavation; their weathered, oxidised appearance has an architectural appeal.
Relatively unweathered Exxon Valdez oil from the 1989 spill 20 years ago lingers just beneath the surface of beaches in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Riki Ott: Beware the Sirens of Big Oil
Today the only memorial to the battle is a weathered medieval stone cross found in a ditch close to the battlefield. Times, Sunday Times
Individuals can be collected by hand from weathered portions of the limestone.
Originally vegetation held the friable, highly-weathered schist in place, but brush clearance and cut-and-fill construction have destabilised the densely inhabited hillsides.
The magma contains components of the sediments and weathered oceanic crust from the Nazca plate as well as the peridotite in the mantle beneath South America.
This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time.
The Tail Burn cascaded through a landscape strewn with mounds of flood-washed rubble left behind by glacial meltwaters, weathered over ten thousand years into rounded hillocks.
He weathered the Depression at sea on his purser's salary, regularly making port calls in newly Nazified Germany. Last U.S. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110
The weathered face on TV, the weathered voice on radio, the Camel cigarette, his decision to end his adulterous affair with Pamela Churchill when his son was born, his savvy baritone as he righteously confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Cool Is as Cool Was

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