Example sentences for: sandstone

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

  • Scores of tiny islands dot the bay, their white sandstone shaped by the elements into arches, caves, and pyramids and covered with lovely, wispy sea pines.

  • They were painted to match the sandstone walls in a 1990 restoration.

  • Above, rows of bright white houses perch on red sandstone cliffs while cafés and restaurants fill the spaces in between.

  • The spores were exposed under a variety of conditions: in dry layers without any protecting agent; mixed with clay, red sandstone, Martian analogue soil, or meteorite powder; or in "artificial meteorites" (cubes filled with clay and spores in naturally occurring concentrations).

  • As you descend look for images of over 700 deities decorating the walls before reaching the chamber with its finely carved red sandstone sarcophagus; a royal cartouche (hieroglyphic name plate) above the lintel heralds your arrival.


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