Sentence examples for acres of rock from inspiring English sources

Necker Island sits atop seventy-four acres of rock in the dazzling blue center of the British Virgin Islands.

This spring, officials in Yunnan Province in southern China beautified Laoshou Mountain, which had been used as a quarry, by spraying green paint over acres of rock.

Ashima had just begun a two-week climbing expedition this spring at Hueco Tanks, a state park that is a mecca for bouldering enthusiasts, 860 acres of rock masses surrounded by endless desert and sky 30 miles northeast of El Paso.

It sits on 130 acres of rocks, bramble and 2,000 oak trees.

I imagine I sounded a little defensive as I said these things, because five acres of rocks, woods, and ledge is a lot of land, a lot of possibilities.

I explained that we live on five acres of rocks, woods, and ledge, and that our lives are as hectic as anyone else's, and that we do the work ourselves.

Observing the rolling fields, horses and cows, undisturbed acres of rocks and trees, I felt particularly protective of what the earth offers us -- and what we need to do to defend it.

They walked across acres of dead rock maples, felled by the hurricane of '38, before they reached the blueberry field.

An exploding atom bomb generates temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun and, detonated underground, can turn acres of porous rock into a glassy plug, much like a huge stopper in a leaky bottle.

The island is a 20 1/2 acre chunk of rock in the East River about 1500' off the Bronx near Hunts Point.

Governors Island was, for many years, little more than a tantalizing wasteland — a 172-acre chunk of rock and mostly abandoned military structures.