Sentence examples for a soft stone from inspiring English sources

The appearance of rough white marble resembles a sugar lump and being a soft stone (when newly quarried) it is easy (ie sweet) to work with.

While she used Marmara white marble for her counters (a soft stone she would probably not choose for a client, she said, because it can easily scratch), she chose medium-toned wood cabinets and blue-green glass tiles to complement the dark wood paneling.

The Hoysala artists achieved this with the use of Soapstone (Chloritic schist), a soft stone as basic building and sculptural material.

You can use a soft stone or nail file.

He pointed out a piece of graffiti, etched into the soft stone sometime between 1450 and 1500, showing a cartoonish man kneeling on the ground, having his head chopped off by a man with a sword.

The floor, with etched glass inserts, is made of a soft gray stone.

Con's No3 was 23, 6ft 2in and carrying a soft 21 stone.

Work on the statues, which were carved from a soft volcanic stone, seems to have begun about ad 900.

Thirty million years ago, three volcanoes simultaneously erupted in Cappadocia, spreading a thick layer of ash which hardened into a soft, porous stone called tufa.

The fort was built of coquina, a soft local stone made of compressed shells.

Remember, by nature, turquoise is a soft, porous stone.