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boulder - use in sentences
Converse of object
- strew: From boulder strewn floor many boulder mazes lead off including a ' z alley ' .
- dislodge: Large boulder dislodged from left wall partially blocking end passage half way down.
- poise: At the top, a cornice of poised boulders can be passed to a hanging ledge beneath a vast hanging choke.
- perch: I carefully hopped up onto it mindful of a load of perched boulders.
- hurl: Maybe hurling big boulders - even making them change into steaming chunks of lava on the way - is more your thing.
Adjective modifier
- jammed: First, a couple of jammed boulders jammed at head height in the passage were removed.
- calcited: This is a fairly complicated feature, which drops about 3 meters over calcited boulders.
- erratic: Samson's putting stone - a glacial erratic boulder can be seen up on the hillside to the right.
- glacial: Samson's putting stone - a glacial erratic boulder can be seen up on the hillside to the right.
- loose: At the bottom, an incline past once loose boulders leads to a second 50 foot shaft.
- rounded: Between well rounded, greasy boulders the water was deep, cold and fast.
Modifies a noun
- ruckle: A further look at Marble Hall revealed a boulder ruckle with a very large passage leading off.
- choke: Turning left at the T-junction a low passage enters an area of boulder chokes.
- clay: The cliffs change here from boulder clay to chalk.
- scree: This included climbing over boulders to get to likely areas of boulder scree, and getting onto the scree itself.
- slope: Once the dust had settled most of the boulder slope was sixty meters lower down the cave.
- pile: Here, a steep loose boulder pile must be climbed to where a huge block is jammed across the passage.
Noun used with modifier
- gritstone: The stream flows away to the left in a passage of roughly circular cross-section, having many gritstone boulders on the floor.
- granite: We saw, sitting on a vast granite boulder, a man who looked at us.
- draughting: The downstream, northern passage ends at a draughting boulder choke.
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