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Sentence Examples His punishment was to schlep a boulder up a hill, only for him to see it roll down the hill again once he had almost reached the top. Conger eels are extremely common in the UK, quick to colonise wrecks, boulder reefs and rough ground. There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge. With both reconnaissance scouts dead, Theorton grabbed the assault rifle of one and ducked behind the nearest boulder in sight. He dug with a scratcher to reveal the outlines of a boulder approximately 12 x 18 x 10 inches in size. In the Lagan Valley the boulder clay is often covered by later glacial deposits. At first it looks kelpy, but underneath the rocks are split by narrow gullies and boulder caves, with lots of pretties to see. The Dale Hollow and Chattahoochee Forest National Fish Hatcheries are helping CFI to raise more boulder darters for future releases. The darkness of the night erupted into an amber sunrise as the boulder held back the sudden blast of flames. The violent storm, with its 70-mile-per-hour winds, tore loose the airship's control cabin, which plummeted earthward like a boulder. The crackle-glaze boulder shapes, the crinkum-crankum ledges, the skewed pagoda silhouettes of the mountains belonged to no Occidental geography. These lizards rely on rock crevices for cover from predators and harsh climate and these crevices are found only in boulder fields or lava flows. The air was still, the rocks frosted and frozen and ice crystals decorated every boulder. He informs me that the ground below Dublin consists predominantly of boulder clay. The stench of sulfur filled the air as I dragged myself across the scree and hunkered behind a dark boulder. Sitting on a boulder, looking up a few thousand feet to the summit of the mountain, he became serious and reflective. Under ordinary circumstances hoary marmots are usually seen on the top of boulder piles. A minute later, she was crouched behind a boulder, her crossbow loaded and strung. Greensand, coal, rock salt, coral limestone, oolites, and boulder clays are examples of indicators of depositional environments. We headed off down Pierce's Passage and over a muddy boulder slope until we reached some cascades. Show More Sentences Crossing the stepping stones to the boulder, Will told Heather he had something for her. The canyon opened into vast boulder fields, where the river sometimes disappeared in the distance. It seems like every time I go climbing on a sandstone formation, I break off a handhold, yet I can't put a dent in this boulder. Carl Staszak found a large boulder with a good exposure of the ore suite-cinnabar, native mercury, calomel, and some yellow mercury oxychlorides. The cold, soft spindrift blew into my face as I crouched beside a boulder trying to strap crampons to my boots with frozen fingers. Without saying a word to Echo, he unslung the pack off his back and placed it on the ground next to the boulder. It took a while to unseal the boulder from the entrance but he managed to move the thing out of the way. The boys ascended a steep slope of pink rock to hide behind a boulder and watch. According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated. The analogy that I like to use is that it is like taking a sledgehammer to a large boulder and breaking it up so the pebbles can be washed away. He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log. You can't slather on powder when every grain looks like a boulder on your client's face. We would soon join them on a boulder slope which turned into a beautiful undercut cliff. A mountaineer had to cut off his right arm to free himself after being trapped under a falling boulder. The reverie was broken as if someone hurled a boulder into a smooth-flowing stream. This trail's namesake is a large boulder located near the midpoint that is covered with walking ferns. Using a hydraulic jack and a grip hoist, it took them an hour to lift the boulder. Then they're unleashed on the boulder and the challenge is to climb the set route in as few attempts as possible. She cleared her final boulder and stood on top of it with arms akimbo trying to catch her breath. The dive base lay at the foot of a steep boulder slope, overhung by a high, arched ceiling adorned with enormous stalactites. Show More Sentences Soon the moraine squeezes against the river, and Asia and I are forced to hop boulder to slippery boulder. He claims the plans for the extension come close to possible site of a boulder circle and dolmen. Skye was just about to throw a rock or some boulder in after him when he finally resurfaced. To the immediate right, there is a short climb up a rock rib, at the top of which is an obscured boulder crawl leading on and up. Sampling reaches were selected to include riffle habitats with substrate composed primarily of cobble, gravel, and boulder. This all just happens, like a boulder rolling downhill, but without any sense of danger. In the opening sequence, a huge boulder rolls down the hillside, barely missing him and landing in the swimming pool. Climbing this leads to the base of an unstable boulder slope which ascends into Cape Kennedy Chamber with its impressive array of stalagmites. The ascetics would go out and, with great exertion, meditate for months and years under a tree or leaning against a boulder. These were carved on a large earthfast boulder situated on a natural lynchet that follows the line of a periglacial feature. Brandark had found a boulder to use as a heat reflector and slept between it and the fire with only his beaky nose poked out of his blankets. An almighty boulder has been heaved into the pond, scattering and displacing all manner of beauty with an uncouth splash. I would say yes, focused meditation might add to becoming more of a boulder. It's a steep climb to the gap over loose scree and boulder slopes but the climbing eases off once you enter the narrow confines of The Window. You are a poncho-wearing Clint Eastwood clone who scurries about, taking cover behind a wagon or boulder, besting bad guys with your six-shooter or rifle. I did one semester at boulder, which was more a stereotypical, American collegiate experience. With little energy left at the top, we still had to descend, by the light of headlamps, 1,400 feet of a boulder field that had yet to settle on its angle of repose. When the Concordia skimmed the rocky reef Friday, lodging a giant boulder into her hull, Schettino made his second mistake. We broadside off the backwash from a boulder as big as a house. My first attempt to saw into the boulder barely scuffs the rock. Show More Sentences At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud. But the residents say development will come within 70 ft of the edge of the boulder clay cliff and will be only 30 to 50 ft above the first tier of houses. He cleaned the waterfowl expertly and made a fire with a box of tinder and a collection of dried sticks on the flat top of an exposed boulder embedded into the earth. On a nearby hill, she saw a large boulder that looked fairly unstable. If a farmer ploughing his field encounters a boulder, he unharnesses his oxen from the plough and rips the boulder from the ground and moves it aside. Even this close to the shore there are colourful sponges, soft corals, brain corals and boulder corals, forming a playground for goatfish, parrotfish, chromis and wrasse. He stood up, and grasped a fiery brand in either hand, and flattened himself against the big boulder, alert and ready for the attack when it should come. The nine-foot long boulder, deeply veined with coloured sandstone sediments, has been cut into three four-inch thick slabs using massive diamond-toothed saws. And once there, I leaned my back against a hollow in a boulder, not the smooth planks of a bench thoughtfully placed in the shade of twin live oaks. It is named after a granite boulder perched above the rocks. As the woman made to get off the boulder she was perched upon, a tiny pinpoint of yellow light flashed upon the horizon, something which was almost invisible. A large grey boulder lies on the beach directly inshore from the Chadwick. There is the belief that the actual footmark lies on a blue sapphire beneath the huge boulder upon the summit, and what we see is only an enlarged symbolic presentation. The Franconian Jura, situated between Bamberg, Bayreuth and Nuremberg, is one of Germany's largest and most traditional rock-climbing and boulder regions. As far as the historical aspects are concerned, it is necessary to mention the Romanesque Baptistry and the adjacent cupelled boulder with Celtic engravings. He felt the wind of a second bullet that spatted against a boulder near Barney. The surface deposits comprise thick peat in the upper reaches, with glacial boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel in the lower parts. The group subsequently discovered a way up through the massive boulder pile and arrived at the foot of Titan. I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase. Loxtons new sous-vide pork boulder has achieved great success scooping two recent awards. Show More Sentences Man canyoneering in Utah in 2003, pinned by falling boulder for five days, facing sure death, amputates forearm with dull knife to escape. Ahead, a large sandstone boulder creates a pulpit on the hill, and in the shadows is a large painted figure, red from mountain mahogany. The tunnels under Newcastle were mechanically bored through boulder clay and lined with cast iron or concrete segments. Austrian all rounder Alex Luger climbs what he describes as a highball boulder problem and what most people would call a solo. Fritz S J, Mohr DW Chemical alteration in the micro weathering environment within a spheroidally weathered anorthite boulder. A strange climbing frame THE boulder being dumped near Lindley Street in Milnsbridge is described as a climbing frame and a 4m high equipment. We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later. The member was composed predominantly of coarse-grained, light-colored, cross-bedded arkosic sandstone and minor boulder beds. The boulder field is thought to have been caused in part by weathering, such as frost action. Much of the lower slopes are mantled by thick deposits of glacial till or boulder clay dating from the last Ice Age. The area was covered by ice during the Ice Age and boulder clay deposited as the ice retreated. The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain. The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface. The ice sheet, which stopped around present day Finchley, deposited boulder clay to form Dollis Hill and Hanger Hill. His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel. Echeveria imbricata nestles against a boulder with yellow yarrow and Berkeley sedge in a small planting bed. The low rolling hills of Low Furness are formed of glacial deposits, mainly boulder clay, above Triassic sandstone and Carboniferous limestone. Bubble Rock, a glacial erratic, is a large boulder perched on the edge of Bubble Mountain in Acadia National Park. Boulder sized clasts are found in some sedimentary rocks, such as coarse conglomerate and boulder clay. The word boulder is short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulderston or Swedish bullersten. Show More Sentences While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. The rocky and boulder shores toward the south of the lough are dominated by the seaweed knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum. Retreating glacial sheet ice also deposited quantities of sand and marl across the area where boulder clay was absent. Somehow, we'd become high-centred on a big boulder at the creek crossing. One back wheel was spinning wildly. The area was overrun by Irish Sea ice during the ice ages and this has left a legacy of boulder clay and of meltwater channels. The undercarriage hit a boulder and the aircraft crashed, fracturing his skull, smashing his nose and temporarily blinding him. It is not possible to say whether this stone was originally part of the circle, or just a naturally deposited boulder. Moose and his team later went to this area of Peak Cavern via JH and arrived at the underside of an enormous boulder choke just a few metres from the upstream end of Far Sump. The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks. The image was not attractive, but I didn't find my look in an underwire bra, which was more like an over-the-shoulder boulder holder on me, any better. The remains of these plants have been preserved in layers of ancient peat, which were in turn buried by the boulder clay left by glacial moraines. Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge. According to Preservation Worcester, the historic building, reminiscent of an English manner, features a rubble stone boulder base and half timbering in the gables. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Rocks in the lower part consist in general of mauve sandstones, siltstones and greyly green siltstones interbedded with a few intercalated mud boulder horizons. Set into the pavement of Fore Street is the 'Brutus Stone', a small granite boulder onto which, according to local legend, Brutus first stepped from his ship. In hand specimen, leached, oxidized, and sheared San Diego breccia consists of cobble to boulder sized, sub-rounded aphanite clasts in a dark gray, amorphous silica matrix. A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah, and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. Examples from Classical Literature We dropped behind a boulder and Tse-tse counted while I lifted every scent. It is all gray boulder and brown, with a film of pale green over all, touched here and there by the dreamy white of the shadbush. After untold centuries, the wild rose and the hay-scented fern cluster round the boulder, and dandelions star the grass. Even though he was unable to stand, he would crawl to the lee of a boulder or copse of trees and let the snow cover him. Yet from this mysterious thicket had hurtled that boulder, swift and deadly. In the Newlands boulder the diamonds have the appearance of being an original constituent of the eclogite. It was Rodman, too, who before the game had discovered and levered away a small boulder, hidden near one of the goal posts. Linda rushed to the boulder and knelt again, but she could get no response to her questions. Traces of this metal, chiefly in the boulder form, are found in the metalliferous horizontal strata. Barely did the pair have time to duck out of sight behind a boulder before he approached. Even before he started to feel the pain in his midsection, Odal began trying to push the boulder off. Clark studied the unplowed side of the meadow, then pointed at a large, half-buried boulder. Again they climbed, coming presently to a ledge smaller than the one below and hidden by an outthrust boulder. Once our group was out of sight of the ship, Mason threw down his packsack, sat down on a boulder and lighted a cigarette. The rocket roared to life and Odal was hurtled free of the boulder, shot uncontrolled completely off the planetoid. And I would swap a league of them for one archaic boulder the size of a box-car, with a thick coverlet of reindeer moss. Five others were seated on boxes about a boulder that looked like porphyry outcrop. It is that of a cold climate, accompanied by glaciation and boulder deposits. For a time a Black Stream of men eddied in the moonlight round the bishop's coach, like a torrent breaking round a boulder. In an instant pandemonium reigned, for the heavy boulder had mowed down a score of the pursuers, breaking arms and legs in its meteoric descent. Show More Sentences Within a hand's cast of the avengers of blood humped the black boulder. He was behind a boulder, not too dissimilar to Calhoun's breastwork. The girl stumbled, struck her head against a boulder, and lay still. But he clung to the cony and dragged it out of reach beneath a boulder. It stands as saliently alone as a meteoric boulder in a meadow. The leaded windows were bright and speckless, and the door-stone was as clean as a white boulder at ebb tide. At scaur Hill there is a bridge of a single massive boulder. Behemoth is a tank of a Monster that becomes a giant, destructive boulder and rolls through the environment for quick traversal. They fled down the mountain sides, leaping from boulder to boulder like bucks. In the centre of the space was a boulder some three or four feet high, and with a flat slab-like surface of some six feet or so. Sisyphus and his boulder are fairly well established, even if his wife Merope tends to be neglected. Invar threw his shoulder against a huge boulder on the slope. Susan had run out, swerving sharp to the left at the door, and on the edge of the slope crouched down behind a boulder. From boulder to boulder he leapt like a buck, he crashed through the brake like a bull, he skimmed the level like a swallow. Of cultural and spiritual significance to the Blackfoot people, ochre pictographs on the immense boulder record a story of origins of the Blackfoot people. I go to rescue,' and Hurree, pounding down the slope, cast himself bodily upon the delighted and astonished Kim, who was banging his breathless foe's head against a boulder. So he went stumbling along now stepping into a deep hole, now stumbling over a boulder in a manner that threatened to unseat his rider or plunge them both clear under current. But they could not surround the outlaws, who kept well in the lead, ever and anon dropping behind a log or boulder to speed back a shaft which meant mischief to the pursuers. Find more words! 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