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Example sentences for "weathered"

Lexicographically close words:
weather; weatherbeaten; weatherboard; weathercock; weathercocks; weathering; weatherly; weathermost; weathers; weathervane
  1. Say not so; your Grace has weathered many a storm before," said Marie de Courcelles.

  2. But "the pilot that weathered the storm" refused to leave the tiller in case decisive news came from Harrowby.

  3. In a day or two he threw off a poem which, though slighted by him, gained a wider vogue than any of his effusions, "The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

  4. The dawning of peace should fresh darkness deform, The regrets of the good and the fears of the wise Shall turn to the pilot that weathered the storm.

  5. Midway between his standpoint and the turf below there stretched a narrow ledge or shelf, weathered out through the centuries, and upon this excrescence lay a mortally injured sheep.

  6. It was a long, steep slide of small, weathered shale, and a place that no man in his right senses would ever have considered going down.

  7. I jumped into the narrow slide of weathered stone and looked up.

  8. No weathered heaps of shale, no crumbled piles of stone obstructed its level floor.

  9. It was a box-trap, with a drop at the end, too great for any beast, a narrow slide of weathered stone running down, and the rim wall trail.

  10. Going down, in one sense, was much easier than had appeared, for the reason that once started we moved on sliding beds of weathered stone.

  11. Under the crumbling walls, over slopes of weathered stone and droppings of shelving rock, round protruding noses of cliff, over and under pinyons Satan thundered.

  12. I came to a break in the cliff, a steep place of weathered rock, and I put Satan to it.

  13. I imagined it was the crash of rolling, weathered stone, and I saw again that huge outspread flying lion above me.

  14. Clarendon, beset by enemies on every hand, yet trusting in the King whom he had served so well, stood his ground unintimidated and unmoved--an oak that had weathered mightier storms than this.

  15. Yet might he have weathered the general hostility had Charles been half as loyal to him as he had ever been loyal to Charles.

  16. You think I went to the levee to please myself.

  17. The blocks are seen to consist of a hard grey stone, but the weathered surfaces are soft and brown.

  18. A pretty little coral, looking like a collection of little stars, Holocystis elegans, one of the Astraeidae, is often very sharply weathered out.

  19. Large blocks lie on the shore, where numerous fossils may be found on the weathered surfaces.

  20. A weathered surface is often seen covered with fossils, when a new broken one shows none at all.

  21. Along the shore of the Undercliff, Upper Greensand fossils may be found nicely weathered out.

  22. The contrast of these coloured cliffs with the White Chalk, weathered to a soft grey, of the other half of the bay is very striking and beautiful.

  23. Frost-cracked from the solid granite, the side rock that accompanied it had been weathered from the peak.

  24. The ridge attained, however, he found it harder going than he had imagined, by reason of the broken shale, weathered by the frost of unnumbered winters.

  25. As this igneous rock weathered with time, the rain and the streams washed it into the ocean.

  26. Wide slopes just steep enough to make climbing demand considerable sure-footedness widened this hanging valley on either side, with no greenery save the picturesque bits that grew along the weathered cracks.

  27. Sail whichever way I would, it seemed clear that if the sloop weathered the rocks at all it would be a close shave, and I watched with anxiety, while beating against the current, always losing ground.

  28. I shouted to seals, sea-gulls, and penguins; for there were no other living creatures about, and she had weathered all the dangers of Cape Horn.

  29. I was many hours off the rocks, beating back and forth, but weathered them at last.

  30. The face to the summit was so steep and coarsely weathered that we took risks in climbing it.

  31. A blizzard sprang up, and, after it had been safely weathered in the lee of some grounded bergs, the 'Aurora' moved off on the afternoon of February 11.

  32. They remained in the vicinity of the coast for a few days, when a gale sprang up which was hazardously weathered on the windward side of the pack-ice.

  33. The columns, roughly hexagonal and weathered to a dull-red, stood above in sheer perpendicular lines of six hundred and sixty feet in altitude.

  34. Many of these showed a marked degree of ablation, and, in places, blocks of ice perched on eminences had weathered into most grotesque forms.

  35. Snow petrels had been seen coming home to their nests in the beacons, which were weathered out into small caves and crannies.

  36. The boulders were all weathered a bright red and were much pitted where ferruginous minerals were leached out.

  37. There was a complete boot-mending outfit which was put to a good deal of use, for the weathered rocks cut the soles of our boots and knocked out the hobnails.

  38. The 'Aurora' weathered it splendidly, although one sea came over everything and flooded the cabins, while part of the rail of the forecastle head was carried away on the morning of the 31st.

  39. At Rose Island, close by, there are some fine basaltic columns, eighty feet high, weathered out into deep caverns along their base.

  40. And he nodded in the direction of the exquisitely-weathered old Caen blocks with the great bosses of house-leek covering the coping.

  41. Easing off the sheet, and crowding her up into the wind, the boat weathered another shock, and then had another brief respite.

  42. Fortunately there was no obstruction in his path, and the boat weathered the headland, though without the fraction of a point to spare.

  43. Hurricanes from the south prevail here; fine red dust from weathered sandstone flies like clouds of blood through the valley and colours the snowfields red.

  44. We remained quiet in our hiding-place of much-weathered green schist, full of quartz veins, from which we could peep out without being seen.

  45. The rocks comprised weathered schists, quartzite, and granite--the last only in detached blocks.

  46. Unlike them, it does not glow with the varied hues of the weathered Pentelic marble, but is a soft gray, due to the native stone of which it was constructed.

  47. Many beyond his own circle were relieved and thankful when he weathered danger and began to build up again with the lengthening days of the new year.

  48. The dwellings stood under thatch, or weathered tile, and their faces at this season were radiant with roses and honeysuckles, jasmine and clematis.

  49. There was no tension in the German command; it was too weathered for that.

  50. For five days these two pair had cautiously, timidly even, stood for each other in that reserved way that much-weathered men integrate a memorable friendship.

  51. Peter was in for it, and weathered gracefully.

  52. His soft, low-collared shirt was somewhat of a spectacle in consideration of the angular and weathered neck.

  53. But then Clarice and I could hardly have weathered scandal except by making ourselves particularly agreeable to everybody.

  54. It was schist, with a natural fracture not unlike coal, and weathered into the semblance of wood: unfortunately it was hard as iron, and it did not contain an atom of bitumen.

  55. In about an hour's time they came to a large one story frame building painted a rather light blue, which color had weathered a good deal.

  56. The hair which came down to his shoulders had that peculiar sun-burnt weathered tinge that comes from continual exposure to the weather.

  57. Among the furniture so mercilessly dragged from its familiar surroundings to stand on the trampled grass, was a little, square, weathered thing, which Felicia at first failed to recognize as the inevitable melodeon.

  58. On the third day of April the hotels and many of the cottages were closed, with weathered shutters at the windows and a general air of desolation about their windy piazzas.

  59. In limestones containing abundant encrinites, shells, or other organic remains, the weathered surface commonly presents the fossils standing out in relief.

  60. But where a limestone is full of impurities, a weathered crust of more or less insoluble particles remains after the solution of the calcareous part of the stone.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weathered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blanched; bleached; eroded; faded