SANDSTONE in a Sentence

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1. She glanced at the big, hollow sandstone slab of the threshold, now crossed by so few feet.

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 Meanings and Examples of SANDSTONE
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sandstone
 n.  a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
Classic Sentence:
1  The Congregational chapel, which thought itself superior, was built of rusticated sandstone and had a steeple, but not a very high one.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  She glanced at the big, hollow sandstone slab of the threshold, now crossed by so few feet.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
4  One store-building had a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  An aquifer is a water - bearing rock stratum such as sandstone and chalk.