Sentence examples for sandstone from inspiring English sources
The word "sandstone" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the type of sedimentary rock made out of sand and deposited in layers. For example, "The Pyramids of Giza are made of sandstone."
noun
A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
Green slate paving was cut into the sandstone, intertwining old and new.
But times changed and the sandstone colossus was abandoned in the 1970s.
The songs fell silent when people reached the austere amphitheatre of the Union Buildings, built in light sandstone a century ago and in the style of the ancients – the government describes it as a "modern-day acropolis" atop a hill.
And the open-plan sitting room below has its original sandstone flags and stone spiral staircase along with a log-burner by which to curl up and recite romantic lines.
Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort's stout bastions.
One example was said to be the sandstone Lichfield Cathedral - red, the argument ran, with the blood of the men who built it.
At last, the mine-driver's boring rod punched through the sandstone from the Kinneil side into the cavity of the Valleyfield pit.
Rather than merely skinning the existing building, and pinning on the remains like a decorative brooch, the Victorian sandstone façade of the Lady Glenorchy Church is engulfed by a great glass shed.
Last week I spent a few sun-beaten days on a sandstone ledge 250 feet above the sagebrush-flecked floor of an eastern Utah valley.
It doesn't take much to work out how it earned its name, with a terrain of dunes gliding into sandstone crags, the only ornament a frosting of salt left by a freakish rainstorm two years ago.
Miles of sandstone facades are now quietly rotting away, sometimes noisily so when bits of masonry fall off.
