How to Use obsidian in a Sentence

obsidian

noun

• The tall flow of black obsidian is in stark contrast to the blue lakes and lush green forest that surrounds it.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The prized obsidian came from the Hasan Daği volcano, some 80 miles away or the Cappadocia region farther to the east.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• Drops of scarlet blood on a hard tarmac black as obsidian.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
• Half of the ballroom gleamed ivory, silver and gray while the other half was a exquisite nightmare in ebony, obsidian and onyx.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• None was asked to address the ocean of obsidian surrounding them.
  — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• A few of the victims were bound before death, and some have arrowheads of stone and obsidian embedded in their bones.
  — Hillary Waterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Forget about a polite sear; the beef comes out shining like polished obsidian.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Just pray that no one is carrying around obsidian on Halloween night.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 2 Sep. 2017
• His efforts have already turned up ancient pottery shards and chunks of obsidian.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
• Afterwards, the early humans living in the area traded for sharp, strong obsidian and made delicate tools and spear heads.
  — NBC News, 15 Mar. 2018
• The flow was the final stage of a bigger eruption, formed as magma containing little gas made its way to the surface and cooled, creating obsidian.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• In ancient Mexico, powdered obsidian was mixed with quartz and sprinkled in someone’s eyes to treat cataracts.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Fensterstock’s obsidian-encrusted piece speaks to both the wonder and the folly of human efforts to reckon our place in the cosmos.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• Known as obsidian in the real world, dragonglass kills white walkers and also creates them if stabbed into a human heart by the Children of the Forest.
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 15 July 2017
• The significance of dragonglass (obsidian) this season, along with Gendry's skill as a smith highlights the importance of Davos' fake name for him.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Blades chipped from cryptocrystalline, rocks such as chert and obsidian, are extremely sharp.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
• For mysterious reasons, one looks like obsidian, giving a town that grew up around it its name: Black Spire Outpost.
  — Wired, 18 Nov. 2019
• Blegen is not yet convinced that the obsidian at Olorgesailie is evidence of trade networks.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2020
• Early humans sourced black obsidian for projectile points from at least 50 miles away.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
• But none seems better equipped to manage summer's onslaught than Carricante, grown mostly on the eastern slopes of Mt. Etna, facing the sea, where the soils are studded with obsidian.
  — Patrick Comiskey, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
• The International Human Rights lawyer’s mane is a rich shade of volcanic obsidian, or a bar of Ghirardelli chocolate.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• The history of local mining—for obsidian, iron, copper, silver, coal—also goes back thousands of years.
  — Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
• The analysis showed that all four were made using Mexican obsidian.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• The striking ebony hue feels at once ancient and modern: Here is the enveloping matte darkness of Anish Kapoor’s Vantablack paint and the glittering primordial obsidian of lava rock.
  — Amanda Fortini, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• As Samwell Tarly discovers in his research at the Citadel, Dragonstone is a volcanic island which contains large amounts of dragonglass (obsidian, for all you modern-day folks).
  — Chanel Vargas, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2017
• But Brooks says the presence of obsidian also means that the inhabitants of BOK-2 were probably trading with people closer to the obsidian deposits, not just walking for days to pick up some rocks and then walk home again.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2018
• Other artifacts unearthed in the village, from Egyptian shells to Turkish obsidian to Mesopotamian pottery, further testify to its thriving exchange networks.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
• The toolmakers were highly selective about their raw materials, importing obsidian from up to 90 kilometers away.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Mar. 2018

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