Wondering how to use Limestones in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Limestones meaning
plural of limestone
Using Limestones
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of limestone
- In the example corpus, limestones often appears in combinations such as: limestones are, the limestones.
Context around Limestones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Limestones
- In this selection, "limestones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dirty, sedimentary, coastal, interpreted and underlie stand out and add context to how "limestones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include among sedimentary limestones in the and and dirty limestones interpreted to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "limestones" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with limestones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Coastal limestones are often eroded by organisms which bore into the rock by various means. (15 words)
In this way ashy muds or sands or even in some cases ashy limestones are being formed. (17 words)
Limestones have accumulated over billions of years of geologic time and contain much of Earth's carbon. (17 words)
Jurassic sediments are present today in very small areas near the western coast and Miocene limestones underlie the northwestern part of the country and extend south in a relatively narrow belt along the west coast. (35 words)
The fossil-rich stones furnished by the slates of Glarus and the limestones of Monte Bolca were known at the time, but very little had been accomplished in the way of scientific study of them. (35 words)
It is natural for limestone to take on the colour of its surroundings and most limestones are coloured (if not colour banded) to some degree, so the darkness was attributed to such impurities. (33 words)
Example sentences (9)
The Tropico breccia is hosted within finely bedded siltstones and dirty limestones, interpreted to be part of the Proaño group which hosts the major Fresnillo deposits.
At the time when the limestones and dolomites of the White Jura were being deposited, this sea was divided into sponge reefs and intervening lagoons.
Chalk as seen in Cretaceous deposits of Western Europe is unusual among sedimentary limestones in the thickness of the beds.
Coastal limestones are often eroded by organisms which bore into the rock by various means.
In this way ashy muds or sands or even in some cases ashy limestones are being formed.
It is natural for limestone to take on the colour of its surroundings and most limestones are coloured (if not colour banded) to some degree, so the darkness was attributed to such impurities.
Jurassic sediments are present today in very small areas near the western coast and Miocene limestones underlie the northwestern part of the country and extend south in a relatively narrow belt along the west coast.
Limestones have accumulated over billions of years of geologic time and contain much of Earth's carbon.
The fossil-rich stones furnished by the slates of Glarus and the limestones of Monte Bolca were known at the time, but very little had been accomplished in the way of scientific study of them.
Common combinations with limestones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: