How to Use schist in a Sentence

schist

noun

• One is made from grapes grown on granite soil, the other from grapes grown on schist.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Veins of schist and quartz run through its fractured sandstone soils.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2020
• The highlight of the park is of course the gorge, where walls of red-gray rhyolite schist, a hard volcanic rock, rise up to 40 feet along the Eau Claire River.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2017
• It’s a metamorphic rock called schist, compressed by mountains thought to have once been as tall as the Himalayas.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
• But not all of Piedmont has limestone — the Gattinara area, for instance, is all schist.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2017
• Rowland says that the granite and schist formed deep inside an ancient mountain range.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
• Black Canyon is a park of extremes, both fertile springtime folly and menacing gash of gneiss and schist.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
• In the southern province of Otago, rivers also carry gold eroded from the basement schist across the landscape.
  — Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
• Artist Randall Nelson of Willington located and secured the schist, and carved and installed the stone.
  — courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• And, in a 1911 report, Mulholland and Lipincott wrote that the schist might be unstable.
  — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
• Unlike Vouvray to the east, where chenin blanc is grown predominantly on clay and limestone soils, the grapes of Savennières are grown on schist.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• At higher altitudes and grown with care, the Douro’s schist soils can produce taut, focused whites that seem to express the spirit of rock itself.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• Red blend of Syrah (of which 50% is grown on schist soils and 20% undergoes carbonic maceration) and the rest Mourvèdre and Grenache.
  — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• The other night, Senator Feinstein basically had to be carried up the schist steps to the Basin.
  — Robert Carlock, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The river has been flowing in its course for millions of years, downcutting through layers of sandstone, limestone, granite, shale and schist to form the Grand Canyon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The penitentiary was built of brick and Wissahickon schist, a grayish black local stone.
  — Cantor Glenn Sherman, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2022
• This Savennières, from sandy schist soils in the Anjou region, is richly textured, bright and succulent.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• Western South Dakota has some of the finest hunks of sandstone, mica schist, granite, and phonolite porphyry in the American West.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2020
• The schist and granite at the bottom of the canyon are almost two billion years old, with younger and younger layers of sandstone, shale and limestone stacked on top in horizontal bands.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• One night, two massive schist reliefs in the entrance hall, which had seemed too heavy to remove, disappeared, presumably by truck.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• The developers of Morningside Heights found lots of Manhattan schist.
  — William J. Broad George Etheredge, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• However, a decade earlier, work crews tunneling through the area had discovered that the canyon was layered through with schist in its northeastern section.
  — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
• There are many culprits: population density, the nature of the schist, the desire to appease the neighbors, the size of the stations, which the M.T.A. attributes to ever more stringent fire and safety regulations.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• Compared with a standard Colorado, the ZR2’s ride height is two inches higher and the track gets shoved out 3.5 inches, endowing the pickup with balletic stability on the slickrock and crumbled schist.
  — Aaron Robinson, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
• The Brahma Schist, a portion of the rock comprised of amphibolite, schist, and metamorphosed sulfide deposits, are an astonishing 1.75 billion years old.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024