How to Use tuff in a Sentence

tuff

noun

• The site is named Wuda tuff after the district of Mongolia where it was found.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
• By counting up the decay products, Saylor’s team could tell when the crystals—and the tuff as a whole—were created.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• Except for its tuff-guppy face, the Prius Prime is an unassuming mode of transport.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Some of the most striking sights within the Cappadocia Plateau are villages carved into the volcanic tuff.
  — George W. Stone, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Interspersed with the in-person dancers are film sequences within the 400-feet-deep tuff quarry.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The crew made its way around low-growing cactuses, through prickly and fragrant sage, over tuffs of wild grasses.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• The crew made its way around low-growing cactuses, through prickly and fragrant sage, over tuffs of wild grasses.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• The area is known for its Bishop tuff — a type of rock formed by super-heated volcanic ash, which is of interest to researchers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
• Perched on a brownish-red tuff promontory near the Umbrian border, Civita is a place where time stands still.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
• The rock formation is what’s known as a tuff ring, which rises magnificently above all else around it.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
• Chiaia di Luna, a huge bay that backs into a dramatic tuff wall, has one of the island’s few sandy beaches.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2018
• Here, on its slopes, all the island’s moai were carved from tuff (volcanic ash, which is easier to work with), before being transported as far as 11 miles away.
  — Nic McCormack, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
• As an additional defensive measure, the dwellings, constructed with blocks of pumice-like tuff, had tiny door openings.
  — Frank O. Sotomayor, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Some minerals in tuff contain traces of radioactive potassium-40, which decay like clockwork from the time the minerals were created until the present.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• All fossil plants at Wuda tuff have modern living relatives except for this set of rare specimens.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
• About halfway through the hike, the road swings around a water tank and begins a winding ascent through a geologically complex zone of quartzite, limestone and volcanic tuff — an amazing display 540 million years in the making.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
• There are older consolidated rocks, loose volcanic tuff produced by explosive eruptions, and a variety of clays, which may or may not contain hot water.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• Fish Slough, a National Natural Landmark on the eastern edge of the tablelands, includes vivid petroglyphs chipped into bizarrely eroded volcanic tuff formations that overlook a verdant desert oasis laced with meandering spring-fed creeks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
• Inside the Roman Forum new exciting archaeological discovery: a hypogeum with a tuff sarcophagus from the 6th century BC.
  — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
• For disposal in granite, clay and tuff formations the maximum allowable disposal density is determined by thermal limitations and most scenarios have waste canisters separated by about 8 feet.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024