boulder

One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Los Angeles neighborhood, which gets its name from a massive boulder in the hills that resembles the face of an eagle, is sandwiched between Pasadena and Glendale and two major freeways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Larger incoming objects, such as boulder sized rocks that create especially bright flashes, are known as bolides or fireballs.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Olympic rock climbing champion Toby Roberts - who won gold in the boulder and lead event at Paris 2024 - was also made an MBE on Tuesday.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

He yearned to be the first to find Hen Wen and he turned aside, clambered through the weeds—to discover nothing more than a boulder.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Soon they’d fill with water, and with what writer McPhee called “rock porridge,” a cold rolling lava of mud and debris and boulders the size of Volkswagens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Upper Trishuli 1 was constructed for water flows, not a massive debris-laden surge like in the August disaster, with boulders as big as 25 feet across, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Once rescuers knew where the power stations were, Dix said they could then decide the best way to access them, which typically involves digging and "blasting boulders".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

"There's boulders bigger than houses - I've never seen that before in my life. It's just an extraordinary operation," the former head of the International Tunnelling Association said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

In order to carry out further excavations, the boulders had to be removed somehow.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler