10 sentences with 'rock'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rock and other words derived from it.
• « solid rock in some places, in others it was only supported by rubble; at one point it rested on a stone barely eight centimeters in diameter. »
• « At the centre of Mecca was a shrine, called the Kaaba, built around a piece of volcanic rock revered as a sacred object in various Arab faiths, and Mecca was an important place of pilgrimage for Arabs long before Islam. »
• « Likewise, fossils embedded in rock were an enigma that the biblical creation story could not explain. »
• « In the early 19th century, some scientists argued that these phenomena could only occur through the stratification of rock, a process that would take millions, not thousands, of years. »
• « A child born in 1946 was a teenager in the early 1960s, which in turn fuelled the massive explosion of popular music that gave rise to the most iconic musical expression of youth culture: rock and roll. »
• « Of course, many young people were active on both counts, listening to folk music or rock and roll, experimenting with the various drugs that became increasingly common and available, but also joining the anti-war movement, the second-wave feminist movement or other forms of protest. »
• « Motionless on the rock was a smooth creature that yielded slightly to the gentle pressure of my fingers. It looked like a fish, but it had no scales, nor did it move. »
• « Zachariah Delventhal, 11, threw a rock into Tom Thomson Lake, on the shore of which he was camping with his family in the Canadian province of Ontario. The reflection of the forest in the water broke into ripples. »