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

The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise.

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