ROCK in a Sentence
Learn ROCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
369 example sentences for ROCK, such as:
1. The rock star had a captive audience.
2. A sharp overhang of rock gave them cover.
3. The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
4. The explosion left a wide gash in the rock.
5. The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
2. A sharp overhang of rock gave them cover.
3. The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
4. The explosion left a wide gash in the rock.
5. The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ROCK
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rock
n. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
n. a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
2 Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
3 Miss Faith was driving, her face like a rock, and for once, her teeth were covered by her lips.
4 It was as hard as rock candy and as tasteless as sawdust and after one bite Scarlett hastily handed it back amid roars of laughter.
5 Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
6 "Let us sit here," Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders.
7 Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb.
8 Selden stretched himself on the grass at her feet, tilting his hat against the level sun-rays, and clasping his hands behind his head, which rested against the side of the rock.
9 Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.
10 He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock.
11 On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
12 Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.
13 Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
14 Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith.
15 When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.
Example Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1 On Radio London they play African and South American music as well as rock and pop.
2 The rock star had a captive audience.
3 Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
4 It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
5 They used five tons of dynamite to blow up the rock.
6 The rock drawings depict a variety of stylized human, bird and mythological figures and patterns.
7 The explosion left a wide gash in the rock.
8 Freddie Mercury was a flamboyant star of the British hard rock scene.
9 To build this tunnel we had to cut through the solid rock.
10 A sharp overhang of rock gave them cover.
11 He melded country music with blues to create rock and roll.
12 The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
13 The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
14 This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.
15 A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.