Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The rock seems composed of spheroids, about an inch in diameter, surrounded by a smaller amount of dark-coloured dioritic matrix.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

On the formation of jasper by the action of dioritic porphyry, augite, and by persthene rock, see Rose, bd. ii., s.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

It seems that in Australia many of the best mineral veins are capped with iron, and run through schistose rocks traversed by dioritic dykes.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Govett, Ernest

And yet this statue, with its living portraiture and exquisite finish, is carved out of a dioritic rock, the hardest of hard stone.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The northern half of Guernsey is mainly dioritic, the southern half, below St Peter, is occupied by gneisses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various