Example sentences for: obsidian

How can you use “obsidian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An important early material, obsidian, was discovered on the island of Milos.

  • Cretans exhibited their skills with paint, clay, copper, bronze, and gold was highly prized and raw materials flowed in — lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, ivory from Syria, and gold, silver, and black obsidian from Anatolia.

  • Through all his trials, darkness had always been his strength, an obsidian girder holding him to the path; now it stood to crush him and, perhaps not coincidentally, the entire Republican ticket, which his opponent's ever-clever propagandists had labeled as "Dole-Gingrich," as if he and the pumpkin-headed speaker had conspired like Jesuits to ruin the nation.

  • Obsidian is a hard, vitreous volcanic rock, which could be fashioned into tools for cutting and stabbing.

  • They also continued to trade in obsidian and the local marble.


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