marmoreal

Example Sentences

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A copse outside a mine stands “coated in a marmoreal haze.”

From New York Times

The familiar words—“I like your shoes”—almost escaped her notice, since the sky behind them was the same marmoreal gray as the ice.

From The New Yorker

Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.

From The Wall Street Journal

The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has said Britain will maintain “an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance” to any change in Gibraltar’s sovereignty.

From The Guardian

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made that clear in typically colorful fashion, declaring that Britain would maintain “an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance” to any effort to weaken its control over Gibraltar. 

From Washington Post