Sentence examples for marble from inspiring English sources
The word "marble" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun meaning a type of rock consisting of recrystallized limestone or a type of small glassy sphere used in children's games, for example: The small boy rolled a marble across the floor, watching it with interest.
verb
To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
The small doorway leads into a huge, 19th-century riad centred around a beautiful courtyard, filled with lemon trees and trickling marble fountains; the edge of the space is taken up by arches that create little nooks to drink, sit, read and stare at the blue sky above.
This was a huge polished marble bunker that displays every single gift ever given to both the late Great Leader and his son Kim Jong-il, the Dear Leader, the country's current head.
At a recent exhibition of new work in London he unveiled pink marble vaginas and gold wall-mounted vaginas.
He had the king-sized bed, the big TV, the marble bathroom.
Nine suites sport luxurious fabrics and lavish design touches, from marble baths to inlaid headboards.
· Almireceros, 1. Open 11.30am – 4pm and 7pm - late Open since 1930, Bar Sevilla was a former haunt of Federico García Lorca and Manuel de Falla, and still boasts the original marble tables sat at by some of Granada's swinging 30s glitterati.
The buildings often come complete with mock-marble effects, in an attempt to overcome the fact that the stone was too cumbersome to lug over the Andes in the 18th century.
Up on the ridge the hardy souls doing the 100km in a single shot are having a tough time – a hailstorm pelts them with marble-sized ice balls, and one of the pitstops is blown over.
It is funny, a 'café society' tea salon with striped wallpaper, pier gilt mirrors, faux-marble floor, several youngish directors eating scones, and a huge oil painting of two rabbits.
When complete, this gargantuan triangular slab, which sprawls out to the north like a slice of marble-encrusted wedding cake, will more than double the capacity of the mosque to 1.2 million worshippers, with 52 entrance gates, 120 elevators and four new minarets.
The Wass portrait, after Henry Raeburn, shows a young man with blue, marble-like eyes.
