Example sentences for: basalt

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

  • hard upon forging their unexpected alliance amid the quadrennial panoply of the Grand Old Party's nominating convention, our protagonists, acting in unavoidable response to the exigencies of a contest dominated by the incumbent's strategy and tactics, set out for the heartland in a manner similar to his, where, beneath storm-riven skies suggestive of incunabular Turners, the desperate reality of their task began to reveal itself, rising like a black basalt orogeny from the soft soils of internecine enthusiasm.

  • They are in oil wells and the crevices of basalt deep within the earth.

  • The dramatically rising cliff of black basalt stone made the castle impregnable to all but the most wily commander.

  • The modern air-conditioned building is well designed, with a small number of delightful pieces on display including a striking basalt statue of Pharaoh Tutmosis III.

  • The basalt “organ-pipes” of Szentgyörgyhegy are an especially fine sight.


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