How to Use petroglyph in a Sentence

petroglyph

noun

• Among the walls can be found a piece of stone known as a petroglyph.
  — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• One of the stones features what appears to be a petroglyph of a mastodon.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• And while some of the meaning has been lost to time, certain petroglyphs can still be read.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• The sea of sandstone is speckled with 2,000-year-old petroglyphs.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• More than a decade ago, Zorro Ranch placed a vintage caboose on the trust land near a petroglyph site.
  — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• Pictographs and petroglyphs show that humans have lived here for some 8,000 years.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• The cave walls feature petroglyphs, which are carved into the rock, Davis told the hikers, his words echoing off the cavernous walls.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Although the ghost town left me unimpressed, the highlight of the trip was another petroglyph site near 21 Goats.
  — James Card, New York Times, 25 July 2017
• Fjeld found his first petroglyph in 2016, and he’s been tracking down carvings in his free time ever since.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• The Zipper Glyph is the largest petroglyph at the Parowan Gap and has been interpreted in different ways.
  — Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• But what draws people to Mouse’s Tank today are the ancient petroglyphs that have been etched into the canyon’s sandstone walls.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• Two more petroglyph tiles are cast rogue from the rest, set into the floor of a lanai, beneath a round glass table where the Charlots often relaxed.
  — Matthew Dekneef Mariko Reed, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• The mound also has ancient petroglyphs and pictographs scrawled into its tan rock base.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
• Because the color of the carvings, or petroglyphs, are uniform and spaced, the researchers believe the piece of art was planned before the carving began.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• The park is also a canvas for petroglyphs, which are visible along the Petroglyph Point Trail.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Capitol Reef is great for watching the sunset and spotting petroglyphs.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• But dozens of visitors each day climb down long ladders to inspect the cliff dwellings and numerous petroglyphs.
  — Frank O. Sotomayor, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Track Rock Gap is far from the only petroglyph site targeted by vandals in recent years.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2021
• The petroglyphs were created by people who lived in what is now Michigan centuries ago.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
• The petroglyphs were found in the Vredefort impact structure, a 186-mile wide crater in South Africa that was formed by an asteroid strike around 2 billion years ago.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2019
• Not long before the Birthing Rock was vandalized, a climber fixed a series of bolts into a large petroglyph panel, also just outside of Moab.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2021
• These eight sites have ancient petroglyphs in locations that might surprise you.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
• Another figure that predominates in the Bronze Age engravings is the bull, which like the sun-god forms, can be seen at other petroglyph sites in the region.
  — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
• That drawing that strongly resembles the Piedra del Sol petroglyph.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• An old petroglyph was found during a survey in Sarkubeh Village in Iran, a site known for its abundant prehistoric rock carvings.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• Walker cleaned it and discovered a petroglyph carved by an ancient ancestor — the first ever found there.
  — Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
• Along the way, travelers pass elaborate dwellings carved into the cliffs, underground kivas, and petroglyphs that were etched into the rock thousands of years ago.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
• The review is rekindling a fierce debate about oversight of lands marked by ancient petroglyphs and towering mountain spires.
  — Morgan Lee, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017
• However, this alone didn't prove that the drawing on the petroglyph actually showed a coronal mass ejection.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• The artworks, also known as petroglyphs, mainly included reindeer and elk.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024