How to Use lava in a Sentence

lava

noun

• Most of the caves formed from the flow of ancient lava.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
• The lava rocks helped to disperse the flames that dance 2 to 3-inches above them.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Holei Sea Arch is made from lava flow from 550 years ago.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
• The tide went out, and there was nothing but lava rocks.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2022
• The lava eruptions reached 164 feet high and the length of the fissure was around 2 miles, the agency said.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 29 May 2024
• Since then, the fountain heights (the bursts of lava) have decreased and now range from 13 to 30 feet high.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• At the end of November, an eruption sent a flow of lava down the side of the volcano.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
• Get ready to glow in this clever, DIY lava lamp costume.
  — Chloe Gorman, Country Living, 19 Sep. 2022
• Next, use it to crack your box and find out whether lava or sand is inside.
  — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
• All of the homes in the area were built on bedrock, and many have lava rock accents in their landscaping.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 18 June 2024
• That's true, a lava rock could come flying at any point.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• Kilauea's lava, though, is confined to a small pond near the top and not gushing down the side.
  — Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• But there seemed a lava flow inside him that would not be easy to reckon with.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• The lava was about 450 meters from the town, officials said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• One of the most unique features of Adams is its long lava flows, some of which reached ~6 miles from Adams summit.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Local news footage showed lava and smoke pouring out of a fissure in the ground.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 July 2023
• One of the places where sulfur lava flows seem to be more common is the Andes of northern Chile.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Hours later, a second fissure opened near the edge of town and lava crept toward the homes.
  — Marco Di Marco, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2024
• The mix is made with small Monterey pine bark, medium pumice rock, and small red lava rock.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2022
• Yes, there are lots of hand-wavy ideas about lava tubes and regolith shielding.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
• The lava was tumbling slowly down the slope and was about 6 miles from the highway known as Saddle Road.
  — Gregory Bull and Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Some of the structures even have tubes made entirely of lava.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 21 Feb. 2023
• Many of Auckland’s lava tubes have been known for as long as people have lived in the region.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
• It's all meant to emulate lava breaking free of the ground.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Queen's Bath Queen's Bath is a natural lava stone tide pool that is about the size of a large swimming pool.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
• The curtain cooled and rained down in a barrage of lava bombs and smaller rocks known as cinders.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• Buildings collapse into the track of UD lava as the earth rumbles and moans.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
• So for a brief period of time early in its history, the Moon was just lava with little or no solid rock.
  — Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• Rilles are long, shallow gullies carved by flowing lava.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024