granite
Example Sentences
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Honnold is renowned for being the first person to climb El Capitan, the vertical granite cliff in California's Yosemite national park - also without ropes or safety gear.
From BBC
The peak of Yosemite’s granite wall is higher than the tallest building in the world and requires climbers to navigate a maze of fissures, crevices and cracks.
From Los Angeles Times
“Any day you were going to climb granite was the best day in the world,” Tallent writes.
From Los Angeles Times
Windingbrook Developments has applied to Cornwall Council for permission for an updated planning proposal for what the firm has called Elvan House after the type of granite discovered on the site.
From BBC
Her angry piece of Cornish granite complains: “I don’t belong here . . . why have you brought me to this place?”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
