How to Use boulder in a Sentence

boulder

noun

• Alexandra reached a boulder by shore and yelled for help.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• Once past the boulder-jumbled gully, the road heads up the east face of the canyon wall.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
• There are plenty of easy boulder problems outside, too.
  — Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2021
• What’s left is a Sisyphean task, except the boulder being pushed up the hill is not just heavy but crumbling in your hands.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• Each team must dig up a massive boulder, stand atop it to grab two keys, scale a wooden structure and unlock and complete a word puzzle.
  — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• With its dazzling coastline framed by lush coconut palms, emerald waters, and granite boulders, this beach is one of the most photographed in the world.
  — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
• The Olmec heads, each fashioned from a single basalt boulder, are among the most evocative pieces of art from ancient Mesoamerica.
  — CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The samples are from Bennu, a rubble and boulder-strewn rock that could endanger Earth a couple centuries from now.
  — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021
• Natural streams and massive boulder outcroppings surround much of the property.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
• The stage was covered in space boulders; periodically, small planets and UFOs would hover above their heads.
  — Evan Minsker, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• On the morning of the winter solstice, according to Owl and other witnesses, sunlight shoots through the shaft in the rock, projecting a laserlike beam onto a nearby boulder.
  — Saki Knafo, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2021
• Trust the car, wait for the brakes, and slide four feet down the face of a boulder half the size of the Bronco.
  — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• The car was lodged on top of a large boulder, with both front tires off the ground.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• The crew made its way through a creek and around boulders to reach the hiker.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• That whole process was like rolling a boulder up a hill.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 30 June 2022
• Once landed, the crew made their way through the creek and boulders to the hiker.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• And then Marcus Jones launched the biggest boulder of the day.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The boulder is always waiting to be rolled up the hill.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• All of this with miles of scrub and boulders and endless sky right outside the door.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Hell, there’s even run-from-the-boulder style segments.
  — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be easy to miss.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• On Asahi-dake, hikers are told to look for a big square boulder, known as Safe Rock.
  — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
• The stone is an erratic, a boulder that was moved by the glaciers that pushed through the state thousands of years ago.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• Think of cobbles and boulders instead of beachy (sand) bars.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• The landscape was a steep boulder field with three-foot-tall tufts of mountain grass between the rocks.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• There's a nice rope bridge on this one, and for those who dare, Jump Rock, a boulder sticking out of the Red River.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• Despite extreme heat and dryness, county public-works crews were moving boulders with heavy machinery to halt off-roaders from riding ATVs on wilderness areas.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024