Sentence examples for ground rock from inspiring English sources

Glaciers ground rock into highly fertile waterborne silt and wind-borne loess that refertilized landscapes and rejuvenated the soil.

The leading miniaturist, Hafiz Meherzad, encloses figurative scenes within exquisite borders of gold leaf and ground rock pigments.

There are three cameras, including one that is part of a microscope intended to look at freshly ground rock surfaces (there is a rock-grinder, too).

Shafts of light shift attention to elements otherwise overlooked: glints from broken glass on the ground, rock graffiti that has been painted over, small ribbons of candle wax in a stony depression.

Oaxaca oozes confidence in an artistic tradition that goes far beyond Toledo and includes a ground rock of accomplished artisans whose work is on display in shops and markets around the city and in villages outside.

But after descending only a couple of switchbacks, he went off the road and over the side of the mountain, tumbling head-over-handlebars and falling some 30 yards down a steep slope of loose, finely ground rock.

Ba-boom!" The ground rocked.

A Jap machine gun, a Nambu, chattered from the flank and the air was thick with shrapnel, roiling, incandescent; the ground rocked with explosions.

The reporters from Xinjiang who stumbled on the factory last week described a place where men in tattered clothing ground rocks by hand to produce sand and talcum powder.

Their strong, and often long, legs enable them to run quickly across ground, rocks, and other exposed surfaces; short rapid flights are not uncommon.

Although aerial feeders, most of the true nightjars roost on the ground, rocks, or fallen trunks, but some prefer horizontal branches of trees, in which case they usually perch lengthwise along the branch.