How to Use sandstone in a Sentence

sandstone

noun

• Catch the sunrise over the Valley of the Sun, when the sky turns on the mountain’s shade of red sandstone.
  — Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2023
• Jaipur is nicknamed the Pink City, a nod to the color of the sandstone buildings at its core.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2022
• There are stairs that lead up to the house made of red sandstone, according to the listing.
  — Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Built in 1799, this massive palace is made of red and pink sandstone and has stunning views of the city.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 29 Jan. 2024
• The name comes from a series of sheer red sandstone cliffs that extend for more than 25 miles.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Climb stairs carved from the sandstone walls and hike in the shadow of these ancient rock structures.
  — Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
• Zion was the humbling climax at the far end of the state, the park with the highest sandstone walls, almost Grand Canyon in scale.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
• The Stone of Destiny, a hard-to-miss 330-pound block of pinkish sandstone, was also present.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• By the time the sun rises above the red sandstone pillars, Wilson is on his way to a nearby well.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The park is home to a stunning 13-mile scenic drive through bright red sandstone cliffs, limestone canyons and Joshua trees.
  — Tamara Gane, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
• The sandstone was carefully saved and has been installed in a walkway around the house and on the new patio.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
• The home, which took more than five years to build, was made with redstone, sandstone and granite sourced on-site.
  — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• The trail that leads to an iconic natural sandstone arch has been a big draw for ages.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
• The main building of the bathhouse, constructed around 210 A.D., had sandstone walls three-and-a-half feet thick.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• To feel dwarfed beneath towering sandstone cliffs, hit the Ledges Trail, the park’s most hyped.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
• Sedona’s largest sandstone arch is a shy beauty tucked away in a small canyon.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• Look for the giant white cross rising from the sand beneath sandstone cliffs.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• Views of sandstone cliffs and the Absaroka mountain range loom in the distance.
  — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• The monolithic sandstone formations line the foothills on the west side of Boulder.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• His sandstone palace is bathed in a golden light—the perfect venue for his wedding to an ingénue of a princess.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• That might require drilling new and lower tunnels through the sandstone beside the dam.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Mostly carved in sandstone, these scenes make up the pith of the exhibition.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• For something longer, try the Broken Hill Trail, a roughly 2.5-mile loop that overlooks the ocean and sandstone bluffs.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Follow a short spur path for views of the impressive sandstone arch.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
• This nearly four-mile round-trip hike leads to Devil’s Bridge, the largest natural sandstone arch in the area.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2023
• Many Hazaras live in caves hewed into the valley’s vast wall of sandstone cliffs.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The sea of sandstone is speckled with 2,000-year-old petroglyphs.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• The five-story architectural icon is made of red and pink sandstone and sits at the edge of the City Palace in Jaipur's historic core.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2022
• The sandstone cliffs bordering our waterways are a whopping 350 million years old and topped by flat plateaus dotted with acacia trees.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
• Experts had previously missed the feather fossils because plumage was thought to have been too delicate to be preserved in the same sandstone wrapped around the dinosaur’s bones.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024