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Example sentences for "adamantine"

Lexicographically close words:
adage; adages; adal; adamant; adan; adapt; adaptability; adaptable; adaptation
  1. That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [the Fates].

  2. As2O3, a substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste.

  3. Defn: A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals.

  4. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.

  5. Defn: A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster.

  6. Adamantine as was the lichen-covered heap of granite, it was of far more mutable a quality than were the dispositions of those who had so stubbornly let it fall into decay.

  7. She knew well that strata of hardness in his nature, the adamantine will that wrought torture to its possessor because it could not bend.

  8. The Castle in Ireland, theoretically, was under popular control, but it was adamantine in policy.

  9. Hephaestus and his satellites chain him down with adamantine rivets, so that he may neither bend the knee nor rest in slumber, but must cling, crucified in wakeful torment, to the unyielding rock.

  10. Especially, if he have failed to observe the nuances of her portrait in the Oedipus Coloneues, he will be inclined to wish that Sophocles had softened here and there the outlines of her adamantine statue.

  11. A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals.

  12. A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster.

  13. But the strong foe, with adamantine hand Drew round his faultering voice a triple band.

  14. Of this adamantine rock all the hills were now composed.

  15. To her mid-Victorian mind Sinclair Spencer was not conducting himself as a gentleman should, and her half-considered resolve to drop him from her visiting list became adamantine as she observed his appearance.

  16. Her own personal loss and agonizing sorrow had been engulfed in her acceptance of the world's tragedy, but it had made adamantine her desire to serve France.

  17. But still he stood unmoved, Hard as the adamantine rock, Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun.

  18. With brazen links, my naked limbs they bound: I gnawed my brazen chain, and sought to sever Its adamantine links, that I might die.

  19. The story of his academic disgrace was one of the very few subjects, on which the man of imperturbable temper and adamantine patience could not keep his temper.

  20. Ever impatient, Shelley was fervid as fire itself, whilst Hogg, from youth to old age, was remarkable for imperturbable temper and adamantine patience, on every question that had no reference to his academic misadventure.

  21. But silent is the brazen sky; On sweeps the meteor's threatening train, Unswerving Nature's mute reply, Bound in her adamantine chain.

  22. It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

  23. Now by main force rivet the ruthless fang of an adamantine wedge right through his breast.

  24. Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, O man!

  25. Of being, as by adamantine links, Was drawn to perfect union, and sustain'd From everlasting?

  26. Within the noble edifice he again congratulated himself on the adamantine will which had brought him thither.

  27. But the good senora, after having read Don Marcelo's letters, opposed an adamantine will to all contrary suggestions.

  28. Nor are they wiles, nor woman's lures, nor blandishments of tricksey dimples, nor captivating smiles, with which she forms her adamantine fetters.

  29. An adamantine wall, reaching to the skies!

  30. Here, bound in adamantine chains, or jammed in rifted pines, or crushed by ponderous rocks, they groaned for many an age.

  31. There was tobogganing, too, down a smooth hillside ending in a plantation of young trees, against which the adamantine heads of the youth of Grandwich crashed unceasingly from dinnertime till tea.

  32. The arrears had been exactly wiped off when this hero, in endeavouring to interpose as much of his adamantine person as possible between his wicket and a leg-break, lurched heavily backwards and mowed down all three stumps.

  33. Conic Section swept to the assault, like a sea of bayonets dashed against a shore of adamantine rock from the hollow of an Almighty hand.

  34. He was a hard, iron-looking, adamantine man.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adamantine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.