Sentence examples for chunk of marble from inspiring English sources

A hefty chunk of marble it is not.

Fragments of ancient pottery have been discovered on the hill, including a chunk of marble engraved with a dolphin.

And there a bag of marble dust – actually carved from a single chunk of marble by Sam Durant.

At midday a big load of pasta comes out, they find a big chunk of marble for a table and dig in.

And what was missing was the artwork itself: there was a presentation of the raw material – a symbolic block of wood, a chunk of marble, pile of clay, sack of plaster, planks of driftwood, seashore pebbles and so forth.

"This breaks my heart," Toribio said, pointing to a place where, years ago, someone had hacked away a fist-size chunk of marble to create an anchor for a heavy galvanized chain.

Chunks of marble and brick littered the floor.

Black-masked youths hurled chunks of marble and petrol bombs at riot police in front of the parliament building in the centre of Athens.

The Moro Fountain on the southern end of the Piazza Navona in Rome was drained on Monday as restorers began reattaching two chunks of marble that were knocked off by a vandal.

Thursday's protests come a day after a demonstration by more than 100,000 people degenerated into violence, with groups of black-clad demonstrators pelting riot police with chunks of marble, paint and gasoline bombs.

It contains 8,434 objects, including a stove, frying pan, writing desk, lathe, workbench, flasks, moulds, dozens of dusty packets of chemicals, scores of crammed pigeon-holes, a box full of rock fragments, and chunks of marble for his sculpture-copying machine.