LIMESTONE in a Sentence

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1. A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us.
2. The film shows how dripping water to erode the limestone until only a thin shell remained.
3. This recently completed new Gothic church in roughly Texas limestone is located in the Spring Branch section of Houston.
4. Within was a small chamber, chilly as an icehouse, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.
5. A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIMESTONE
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limestone
 n.  rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime
Classic Sentence:
1  She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  The row of budding trees, the new brick and limestone house-fronts, the Georgian flat-house with flowerboxes on its balconies, were merged together into the setting of a familiar scene.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
3  There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  Within was a small chamber, chilly as an icehouse, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The film shows how dripping water to erode the limestone until only a thin shell remained.
2  This recently completed new Gothic church in roughly Texas limestone is located in the Spring Branch section of Houston.