"stone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If a sharp blow is applied at the correct angle, the stone may split cleanly apart.
- Yagji had kissed his amulet so hard the carved yellow stone had split his flesh.
- Several of the stones have visible cracks, some of which are growing, and that might ultimately cause the stones to split.
- Now filled with a great rage, the girls intensely grind until finally the grinding mechanism has collapsed and the magical stone has split into two.
- Wilmcote stone splits well into sheets and was used for paving as well as for building.
- The mighty stones of its walls split like twigs, their jagged ends thrusting at the sky.
- First a stone had to be hard enough to cut, scrape, or split a variety of animal and vegetable materials.
- The shore shows how the local stone splits into thin slabs, giving a ready source of construction material.
- Eventually a crack appears along the line that was scored on the surface and the stone splits apart.
- Cliffs and spires rose thousands of feet into the sky, massed close as if some giant had gathered them within his hands and squeezed until the stone had broken and split from the pressure.
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