massy

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

And above the shapely, bespectacled head of Pope Pius XI towered the holy apostolic tiara of pure, massy gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House!

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