Explore Pumice through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rock or stone. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pumice in a sentence
Pumice meaning
A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
Using Pumice
- The main meaning on this page is: A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
- Useful related words include: pumice stone, rock, stone, rub.
- In the example corpus, pumice often appears in combinations such as: pumice is, the pumice, and pumice.
Context around Pumice
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pumice
- In this selection, "pumice" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pale, used, wet, mining, bar and sponge stand out and add context to how "pumice" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a wet pumice bar can and ash and pumice. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pumice" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pumice
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pumice is a very porous volcanic glass. (7 words)
Geology A pumice mine just east of Acquacalda. (8 words)
A wet pumice bar can be used to remove the most difficult stains. (13 words)
This pumice-like block is made from recycled, nontoxic materials, and though it is abrasive, it isn't so rough that it will damage the grill surface. (27 words)
Many newer materials that are effective, yet do not have the sharp edges and poor particle size distribution of pumice, are used for exfoliating soaps. (25 words)
On their return three days later (26 August) after the plume had dispersed, his body was found under the pumice with no apparent external injuries. (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Pumice mining has become a large industry on Lipari, and the pale pumice from Lipari is shipped worldwide.
Alutiiq craftsmen once used pumice like sandpaper, to smooth the surfaces of tools during manufacture.
In 1748, a group of explorers discovered the almost perfectly preserved city under a hardened carpet of ash and pumice.
This pumice-like block is made from recycled, nontoxic materials, and though it is abrasive, it isn't so rough that it will damage the grill surface.
A wet pumice bar can be used to remove the most difficult stains.
Pumice is a very porous volcanic glass.
Sailors Shannon Lenz and Tom Whitehead have recalled their encounter with a huge sea of floating pumice in the Pacific Ocean in early August.
The easy to use Pumice Sponge smoothens roughed up skin and delicately takes away excess calluses.
The major types of seed coating materials include polymers, colorants, pellets, minerals/pumice, and other additives.
The pumice is formed of different stones, some the size of a basketball, and is roughly the same size as Manhattan in New York.
Use a pumice stone to gently scrub off the loosened dead skin cells.
Sometimes it was treated with lime (the mineral, not the fruit), rubbed with pumice and coated with chalk.
Ash and pumice piled convert northeast of the volcano to a thickness of convert; convert away, the ash was convert deep.
As the light vessel approached the shore near Herculaneum, cinders and pumice began to fall on it.
Geology A pumice mine just east of Acquacalda.
Handl's occupancy A German, Johann Handl, obtained a permit to mine pumice in October 1916.
He went on to describe Pompeiian pumice as having been burnt from another species of stone.
Like perlite, pumice is a lightweight, mined volcanic rock that finds application in hydroponics.
Many newer materials that are effective, yet do not have the sharp edges and poor particle size distribution of pumice, are used for exfoliating soaps.
On their return three days later (26 August) after the plume had dispersed, his body was found under the pumice with no apparent external injuries.
Common combinations with pumice
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pumice is 4×
- the pumice 4×
- and pumice 3×
- pumice in 3×
- use pumice 3×
- pumice and 2×
- pumice stone 2×
- pumice are 2×
- broken pumice 2×