tuff
IPA: tˈʌf
noun
- (petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
- A surname.
adjective
- Eye dialect spelling of tough. [(of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.]
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Examples of "tuff" in Sentences
- Its remains are on a tuff butte.
- The tuff also appears to be layered.
- In the north west is purple and green tuff.
- Conflicting opposition is tuff to respond to.
- A search for somthing nonexistent is a tuff issue.
- There is a question as to whether it is tuff either.
- It is built of stone and tuff, with plastered facades.
- The cliff is Tertiary period tuff and tuff breccia of volcanic origin.
- The Himmeldunkberg comprises mainly of the volcanic rocks basalt and tuff.
- This tuff, lapilli tuff and breccia outcrops a little to the west of the summit.
- Sometimes called tuff, it had often been used on Earth as construction material.
- To the hypocrite Christopher Dodd sitting there saying we are going to get tuff is hilarious.
- Over time, that ash became a rock called tuff, which is anything but: tuff is soft, crumbly, and erodes easily.
- The company insists that the "tuff" part of the name is well-earned for being waterproof, dustproof and you can drive a car over it.
- The volcano also spewed out hundreds of feet of ash as far as Kansas and Oklahoma and hardened into a honeycombed rock form called tuff.
- Yea, there's a lot of "tuff" teapootiers and wingnuts out there; until they break the law and get arrested and afraid Bubba is gonna be their cellmate.
- Let me mention something else - "tuff" on crime Texas has over 2300 (yes, you read that right) separate felonies on their books, and every single one of them denies a person the right to own a gun forever.
- "Geological problems such as landslides, quicksand, cave-in were persistent through the entire process of construction, and we have built a 5,800-meter-long tunnel in a stratum known as tuff, a type of rock composed of compacted volcanic ash, which is the world's first of the kind," Shen said.
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