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Example sentences for "large rock"

  • Steering in an easterly direction for two miles, over downs of most luxuriant grass, we found a large rock water-hole holding over 100 gallons.

  • On the 25th found on the top of the cliffs a large rock hole, containing sufficient water to give the horses as much as they required, and on the 26th were equally fortunate.

  • Meghkeekassin, the name of a large rock in an obscure nook on the west side of the Neperah, near the Hudson, is written Macackassin in deed of 1661.

  • The name is an equivalent of Astenra-kowa, "A large rock.

  • The Beekman grant was on both sides of Rondout Creek west and immediately above Honk Falls, where a large rock lying in the kill was the boundmark to which the name referred and from which it was extended to the stream and place.

  • As Houston and Van Dorn disappeared around a turn in the road, the figure of Haight emerged into the starlight from behind a large rock where he had been concealed most of the time during their stay at the cabin.

  • A little later, calm and queenly as ever, Lyle rejoined the little group, who had strolled out a short distance from the house, and were seated beside the lake, in the cooling shadow of a large rock.

  • After a while he became so strong that he could handle a large rock as easily as he had hitherto handled a little stone.

  • The body is exposed in the open air along the side of a large rock, or taken to the shore or hilltop, where stones of different sizes are piled around it to prevent the birds and animals from getting at it.

  • A wolverene was out walking on the hillside and came upon a large rock.

  • Once after that a man fishing near the place saw her sitting on a large rock in the river, looking just as she had always looked, but as soon as she caught sight of him she jumped into the water and was gone.

  • Keeping out of sight of their father, they followed him up the mountain until he stopped at a certain place and lifted a large rock.

  • The next morning he followed him secretly through the woods until he saw him come out into a sunny opening, where he sat down upon a large rock, took off his moccasins, and began rubbing them against the rocks until he had worn holes in them.

  • In a second I leaped off Czar and ran from stone to stone, till I got within ten yards of the shaggy monsters, from which I was only separated by a large rock.

  • We lit the fire under a large rock, so that it was protected from the north wind and drove strong pickets into the ground in order to fasten up our cattle close to the tent.

  • I was at the centre, behind a large rock, Koenigstein lay on my right near the stream in the dry grass behind some bushes, and Clifton was on my left, covered by a fallen dead tree.

  • He had hardly uttered the words when there came a chorus of yells from behind a large rock.

  • Then, as they moved around a large rock, Bob caught sight of several tents placed about a hundred yards apart on a vast plain.

  • A tiny spring trickled from beside a large rock, and they welcomed the taste of the refreshing liquid.

  • There was none to be had, however,--not a tree or large rock to which they could escape.

  • The sun had glinted on the barrel of a rifle in the hands of a man who, at that moment crouched beside a large rock, was facing away from him and motioning to some one in the woods beyond.

  • Meanwhile the cannery watchman had made fast the steamer's bow and stern lines, the latter to the piling of the higher wharf, and the other to a large rock on the beach.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large rock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine time; individual experience; large blocks; large bowl; large business; large circle; large collection; large court; large families; large farm; large fortune; large garden; large group; large house; large letters; large majority; large percentage; large scale; large sections; large space; large stream; large supply; large town; large trade; large yellow; larger force