How to Use dolomite in a Sentence

dolomite

noun

• Its panorama of dolomite Alps like shark teeth reaching skyward is worth the crowds.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Made from ground-up rock, limestone, or dolomite, lime is high in calcium.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2021
• The Gem cabinet is fully encased in claret dolomite and sits on four honed solid stone legs.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 17 Nov. 2022
• The study, which can be viewed at bit.ly/3TlyUlB, was initially completed to determine if a dolomite well was suitable for the area.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2022
• This bedrock includes limestone, dolomite and gypsum, and over time, groundwater has dissolved some of it.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• As years passed, marine sediments formed a layer of limestone known as dolomite nearly 100 feet thick.
  — Julia Griffin, Scientific American, 9 June 2017
• Vulcan Quarries donated two dump trucks full of the Ketona dolomite and Manion was able to grow several of the Glade species at the garden.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2019
• Even more telling are microfossils that Knauth and his colleagues have unearthed from ancient holes pocking the barren surface of the dolomite.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• Check out the rare forest seeps, where water wells up from holes in the ground, as well as the dolomite glade, which is representative of the Ozarks but rare in this particular region.
  — Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
• In designer Kevin Dumais midcentury modern Tribeca loft, the walls and floor are sheathed in white dolomite marble.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
• The blue dolomite structure has turrets, terraces, and towering chimneys for three dozen fireplaces.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• The auditorium resembles a ship's prow and its sides echo the cliff walls of the quarry where congregants collected 1,000 tons of dolomite.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Covering an area more than twice the size of Brooklyn, the grasslands contain hundreds of complex dolomite caves, and more than a dozen early hominin dig sites with names like Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
• Li says the ant’s armor is very similar in composition to the mineral dolomite, except slightly harder.
  — National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
• Just like Drummond's dolomite foundation, this vehicle is rock solid.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2020
• The project, which was initiated by the Duterte administration, involved filling the coastline of Manila Bay with sand from crushed dolomite boulders, according to Reuters.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 30 June 2016
• Some Kewaunee residents say manure from growing dairy herds is too much for an area characterized by shallow soils and fractured bedrock called Silurian dolomite.
  — Jesse Newman and Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• The element naturally occurs in minerals such as brucite, magnesite, dolomite, and carnalite.
  — Alyssa Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Soluble rocks like limestone, dolomite, and gypsum are submerged under water, where the minerals slowly dissolve into the surrounding water.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2020
• The other important minerals available in significant quantities are limestone, dolomite, manganese, mica, china clay, graphite, fire clay, coal bed methane, uranium, phosphorite, apatite, quartz, gold, feldspar and pyroxenite.
  — Gurvinder Singh, Quartz India, 4 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024