granite
IPA: grˈænʌt
noun
- (petrology) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
- (uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
- An island in South Australia
- A town in Colorado
- A town in Oklahoma
- A census-designated place in Utah
- An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States.
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Examples of "granite" in Sentences
- The country rock of the mine is granite.
- The banks of the canal are lined with granite.
- Most of the bedrock of the mountain is granite.
- He faced back to the road, his expression granite.
- The lid of the sarcophagus was made of pink granite.
- Most of the bedrock of the mountain is limestone and granite.
- Vitrified tile is an alternative to marble and granite flooring.
- There are 414 marble, granite and porphyry columns in the mosque.
- The artist engraving the powerful pictures onto the granite is a former
- India is the largest exporter of granite and granite products in the world.
- The sea floor contains Paleozoic and Mesozoic granite and metamorphic rocks.
- On the rocky banks are apparent types of the igneous rock that reveal granite.
- She looked at him, her expression granite, and then she started down the hill into Weed.
- The term granite, as used commercially, includes true granite and such allied rocks as syenite and gneiss.
- They're just a plain granite upright listing the missing crew and detailing what they did in the war and how they were lost.
- While granite is still the most popular stone countertop, quartz beat it out in our latest Ratings, and more kitchen designers are giving it a look.
- The erupted rocks which have broken through and upheaved these strata have been elevated from depths that are wholly inaccessible to our research; they must, therefore, have existed under the silurian strata, and been composed of the same association of minerals which we term granite, augite, and quartzose porphyry, when they are made known to us by eruption through the surface.
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