massy

Example Sentences

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Indeed, Stonehenge’s massy blocks seem irresistible to copyists: a website, Clonehenge, charts replicas made of everything from cars and lava-lamps to vegetables and gingerbread.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019

Those macroscopic rules, he said, stemmed from the systematic combination of microscopic bodies: solid, massy and hard, as Isaac Newton had put it in a phrase Dalton was fond of quoting.

From Nature • Aug. 30, 2016

Leathery, massy, meditative Mies van der Rohe is famed in Europe and the U. S. for one beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patriarch Miron Cristea drew nigh, his snowy hair surmounted by a Byzantine crown of massy gold, his right hand grasping the apostolic staff.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the petulant mouth, the long neck, the buggy eyes, the massy hair.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly