colored stone
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mariana Makramalla is usually hunched over a table, snipping small pieces of colored stone with pliers in her family’s mosaics workshop in the western Jordan town of Madaba.
From Washington Times • Apr. 30, 2020
Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rings set with colored stone flashed on his fingers.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
He had noticed with a terrible pang of fear that the drops were falling on a face, depicted in tiny pieces of colored stone.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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