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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ROCK
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Miss Faith was driving, her face like a rock, and for once, her teeth were covered by her lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  "Let us sit here," Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
10  He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
13  Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
14  Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
15  When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.