Example sentences for: stalagmites

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

  • Tours (in English) take you down into a vast chamber for views of the many stalactites and stalagmites.

  • The caves have cathedral-like dimensions, with hundreds of stalactites and stalagmites hundreds of thousands of years old.

  • A guide will help to point out details that your untrained eye might miss — such as the monstrous face of Kronos here to eat his new offspring Zeus, and the small nipple shaped stalagmites on which the infant god is said to have suckled.

  • Some of the scenic formations of stalactites and stalagmites have names like Old Banyan Tree Welcoming Guests and Dragon Splashing Water, providing an idea of the poetic license enjoyed by Chinese cave explorers.

  • In 1855 an Englishman discovered the caves, which, being a lava bed, do not have icy limestone stalagmites and stalactites but “lava drops” that look like thick whirls of chocolate mousse.


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