Looking for sentences and phrases with the word waterworn? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
After scratching our way over a metre downwards through the shingle, we finally hit the waterworn rocks of the early Carboniferous.
Sportrock sites are limited to accesible areas of high quality quartzite, and waterworn limestone.
The origin of everything is the riverside, from where Brigitte Pazot gazed at the running water, at the waterworn stones, polished by the current, keeping in their veins the memory of mysterious signs and lines.
Waterworn and hence rounded, up to about the size of a fist, the pebble, preferably flattish rather than spherical, was given a few violent but skillfully applied blows by a hammerstone.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is discovered in a limy stratum at the Brazils, I find, but rarely, and always waterworn.
It consisted of a yellow sandstone in thin strata, covered in some parts with beds of waterworn pebbles.
The bones are black, brown or white, highly fragmented and waterworn to a variable degree.
The houses are generally built of waterworn stones, without cement, but plastered with mud outside and inside.
Swallow-holes or waterworn caverns are common in many parts of the limestone region.
This ware is characterized by a dull, reddish-pink body, usually dark-gray at the core, and by a gross waterworn gravel temper.
Seaside and river gravel, which is composed usually of rounded, waterworn pebbles, is unfit for surfacing roads.
The bed of the river is gravelly, or composed of waterworn stones, which diminish in size as you recede from the mountains.
