Sentence with the word rocks

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Словосочетания

abrasion of rocks by wind and water — разрушение /абразия/ скал под воздействием воды и ветра  
the jagged rocks of St. Saviour’s Point — острые скалы мыса Святого Спасителя  
rocks and trees… the actual world — скалы и деревья… реальный мир  
contemporaneous rocks — горные породы одного возраста  
contiguous rocks — смежные горные породы  
contraction of rocks — сжатие пород  
crab on the rocks — зуд в яичках  
cretaceous rocks — породы мелового возраста  
dash a ship against the rocks — выбросить корабль на скалы  
go dash against the rocks — с треском разбиться о скалы  
deep-seated marine rocks — глубоководные горные породы  
fault associated with igneous rocks — сброс, связанный с извержениями  

Примеры с переводом

It is full of nude rocks.

Там полно голых скал.

The boat ran (up) on the rocks.

Лодка наскочила на камни.

The waves beat against the rocks.

Волны бьются о скалы.

Water tumbled over the rocks.

Вода бьётся о камни.

Bullets spatted among the rocks.

Ядра разлетались среди скал.

The ship foundered on the rocks.

Корабль потерпел крушение на скалах.

The angry mob fired rocks at him.

Разъярённая толпа забросала его камнями.

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

The children clambered over the rocks.

Big rocks overarch the stream

The rocks have gradually eroded away.

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Возможные однокоренные слова

rock  — рок, скала, камень, утес, качаться, качать, укачивать, каменный, горный
rocker  — рокер, коромысло, балансир, качалка, кулиса, очень низкий
rocking  — качка

Synonym: bob, flounder, roll, stone, sway, swing, toss, tumble. Similar words: rocky, frock, rocket, bedrock, crockery, rock salt, skyrocket, rock the boat. Meaning: [rɑk /rɒk]  n. 1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter 2. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth’s crust 3. United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984) 4. (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable 5. hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) 6. a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western 7. pitching dangerously to one side. v. 1. move back and forth or sideways 2. cause to move back and forth. 

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1. Don’t rock the boat.

2. Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away. 

3. This drill can bore through rock.

4. The underside of the rock was covered with seaweed.

5. Many slopes are rock fields with sparse vegetation.

6. Mountains and cliffs are formed from rock.

7. The immense pressure causes the rock to fracture.

8. Goats can bound from rock to rock.

9. Freeze it only until firm but not rock solid.

10. They needed a bulldozer to dislodge the rock.

11. The workmen bored through the rock.

12. The explosion left a wide gash in the rock.

13. There’s a lot of danger in rock climbing.

14. The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.

15. The ice is as hard as rock.

16. I’ve been to plenty of live rock concerts.

17. He pushed against the rock with all his strength.

18. The rock has weathered away into soil.

19. Solid rock is broken down by weathering.

20. Morale in the armed forces was at rock bottom.

21. It is a bust chiseled from a rock.

22. Water is purified by passing through rock.

23. The rock star had a captive audience.

24. They have simply misunderstood what rock and roll is.

25. He lifted up the rock without effort.

26. The tunnel was blasted out of solid rock.

27. The castle is founded on solid rock.http://Sentencedict.com

28. The waves thundered against the rock.

29. He is strong enough to lift that rock.

30. It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock

More similar words: rocky, frock, rocket, bedrock, crockery, rock salt, skyrocket, rock the boat, grocer, hock, dock, sock, mock, lock, procure, process, proctor, grocery, brocade, proceed, flock, shock, cocky, socks, stock, knock, block, proceeds, atrocity, ferocity. 

  • Use the word ROCKS in a sentences

Sentence Examples

The rocks have to be recut. I’ll take a loss.

On the right you’ll arrive at the quarry where they are blowing rocks now.

The wind — the tide — and the rocks will do the rest.»

Look… those enormous rocks have been worn away by the gigantic force of water, in nature’s eternal cycle.

Half way between Dniepro-Petrovsk and Zaporozhje the «Wild River» rushes over the rocks.

There she is, the escapee, illuminating the lugubrious rocks of these formidable millennial mountain ranges.

He’d reach under the rocks and get a hold of the fish… Hey, Butch, you take Morgan in?

«There are queer, grotesque-looking trees, with twisted black branches, huge misshapen rocks that in moonlight seem to take on fantastic shapes.»

The geological formations in the lower part of the picture can still be visited at Vasquez rocks Park, in the Antelope Valley north of Los Ángeles.

I tell you it’s on the rocks.

THROWING rocks AT MYSELF.

It’s not here… that you should climb But here, at this side… till those rocks.

There are lots of lovely rocks and nice little mud puddles.

I think he went crazy, bored beyond human endurance, messing around in this sand and these rocks.

She’s covered with rocks from head to foot.

rocks, snow stuck out at you.

Yeah, I had them taken with all my rocks.

Where do you think he gets the money to buy you them rocks?

I get all the rocks I want… but I’ll keep this here thing now to remember you by.

This submarine dam of boulder clay is then covered in certain places with large pieces of rice wood weighted down with rocks, to protect them from strong sea currents.

Some day you’ll be calling the meetings and won’t want rocks.

You know, rocks and things.

If you’ll excuse me, sir, I have an unnatural passion for rocks.

Don’t you remember all those little chats we used to have about rocks?

Come to think of it, Billy, they were Plymouth rocks.

If we could get to those rocks, we could hold them off.

Saidi, pass the word that when we fire, everyone runs for the rocks.

For when a home is built on the foundation of love, it’s as strong as the rocks of»Gibraltinter.»

Hey, listen, little man, the graveyards up here is full of gold hopheads… guys that smoked a pipeful of hope… had glittering yellow dreams and ended up under a pile of rocks in frozen ground.

The raging rocks and shivering shocks shall break the locks of prison gates.

The rocks are so thick, a fish couldn’t swim between them…

And when a ship comes into the channel, suddenly out goes the light and another light comes up onto the cliffs, and the ship goes on to the rocks over there.

Even now it will be dark before we get to the North Stake rocks.

It was the spirit of Jack Davis up from the sea, mangled maybe by the rocks below.

You’ll get it when the Merry Fern is on those rocks.

And both the band and the shop will be on the rocks this way!

Yes, on the rocks where the clean sand is, and sparkling water and so he stole your pearls.

Is full of rocks and weeds.

Seems I have an old field full of rocks and stones, and no good to anybody.

But it’s no fault of J.J.’s that this show is on the rocks.

We’d be way up around Virgin rocks by now if it weren’t for picking up Jonahs.

No bottles or rocks, just bare knucks and sticks.

A stocking full of sand and rocks is good for that.

Her rocks. Woulda been a snap!

Definition of Rock

to move back and forth

Examples of Rock in a sentence

The storm on the sea began to rock the cruise ship back and forth on the water.

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While trying to get the baby to sleep, the new mother began to rock the infant back and forth in her arms gently.

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On cool summer nights, I like to sit in my rocking chair and rock back and forth with the breeze.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROCK

rock

 n.  a large mass of stone that sticks up out of the ground or the sea

 n.  a type of popular music with a strong beat, which is usually played with electric guitars and drums

Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)

1  The thought of the animal’s suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.

2  Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII

3  Miss Faith was driving, her face like a rock, and for once, her teeth were covered by her lips.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

4  It was as hard as rock candy and as tasteless as sawdust and after one bite Scarlett hastily handed it back amid roars of laughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

5  Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV

6  «Let us sit here,» Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6

7  Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6

8  Selden stretched himself on the grass at her feet, tilting his hat against the level sun-rays, and clasping his hands behind his head, which rested against the side of the rock.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6

9  Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11

10  He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock.

11  On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.

12  Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.

13  Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story.

14  Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.

15  When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.

Example Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)

16  And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.

17  He lifted up the rock without effort.

18  They lifted the heavy rock without effort.

19  A unique feature of these rock shelters was that they were dry.

20  Freeze it only until firm but not rock solid.

21  Discipline is the rock on which the game of golf is built.

22  He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff face.

23  We’ll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.

24  The magazine gives the inside story of life in a rock band.

25  Madonna has made a crossover from rock music to the movies.

26  Part of the rock wall overhung the path at one point.

27  The immense pressure causes the rock to fracture.

28  Push away, men, we’ll soon move this rock.

29  The radio was blaring rock music.

30  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make a rock record.

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCKS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCKS

Rocks is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROCKS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rocks

Rock (geology)

In geology, a rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids. For example, the common rock granite is a combination of the quartz, feldspar and biotite minerals. The Earth’s outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. Rocks have been used by mankind throughout history. From the Stone Age rocks have been used for tools. The minerals and metals we find in rocks have been essential to human civilization. Three major groups of rocks are defined: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The scientific study of rocks is called petrology, which is an essential component of geology.


Definition of rocks in the English dictionary

The definition of rocks in the dictionary is the testiclesto get your rocks off to reach orgasm; gain sexual satisfaction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROCKS

Synonyms and antonyms of rocks in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «ROCKS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rocks» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «rocks» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCKS

Find out the translation of rocks to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rocks from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rocks» in English.

Translator English — Chinese


1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish


rocas

570 millions of speakers

English


rocks

510 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi


चट्टानों

380 millions of speakers

Translator English — Arabic


الصخور

280 millions of speakers

Translator English — Russian


породы

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese


rochas

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali


শিলা

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French


roches

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay


Batu

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German


Felsen

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese


130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean


바위

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese


Watu

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese


đá

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil


பாறைகள்

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi


खडक

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish


kayaçlar

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian


rocce

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish


skały

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian


породи

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian


roci

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek


βράχια

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans


rotse

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish


bergarter

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian


bergarter

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rocks

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCKS»

The term «rocks» is very widely used and occupies the 6.449 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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FREQUENCY

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Principal search tendencies and common uses of rocks

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «rocks».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCKS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rocks» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rocks» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rocks

10 QUOTES WITH «ROCKS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rocks.

Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there’s something bigger than us. I don’t think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I’m at peace. When it comes, I’ll be fine, calm. I’ll miss life, though. Especially my family.

Geologists have a saying — rocks remember.

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

It’s so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

We speak of ‘software eating the world,’ ‘the Internet of Things,’ and we massify ‘data’ by declaring it ‘Big.’ But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It’s hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the ‘real world’ of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

I was ten years old when my first ‘Vogue’ cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness — a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster — children into strength and athletic proportion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCKS»

Discover the use of rocks in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rocks and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

An introduction to the many different types of rocks.

2

Collecting Rocks, Gems and Minerals: Identification, Values …

Arranged by category and color of stone, provides values and tips for identifying, locating, buying, and collecting rocks, gems, and minerals.

3

Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough

Describes how rocks form, and discusses different types, including igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Natalie M. Rosinsky, 2002

4

Introduction to the Physics of Rocks

This book will be of use to students and researchers in civil, petroleum, and environmental engineering and to geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, and other earth scientists interested in the physics of the earth.

5

A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

The definitive guide to rocks and minerals, completely updated for the fifth edition, includes 385 color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and geologic formations.

Frederick H. Pough, Roger Tory Peterson, 1996

6

Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide

Ultramafic and ultrabasic rocks,thoughnotabundant attheEarth’s surface,
providevaluable insights into basalt magma genesisandmantlesource domains.
Anigneouspetrologist may encounter such rocks in three distinct settings: as early
 …

7

Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones

Shows and describes different kinds of rocks and minerals, and tells how to identify rocks by testing for hardness, streak color, and density

8

Geological Journeys: A Traveller’s Guide to South Africa’s …

For those who wonder about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of a distant minehead, this handy volume offers answers and explanations …

Nick Norman, Gavin Whitfield, 2006

9

Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms: …

This book presents a complete classification of igneous rocks based on all the recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks.

R. W. Le Maitre, A. Streckeisen, B. Zanettin, 2002

Describes some of the properties and uses of igneous rocks.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCKS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rocks is used in the context of the following news items.

All Songs + 1: Josh Ritter’s ‘Sermon on the Rocks

And Ritter’s new album, recorded in New Orleans, will appropriately be called Sermon on the Rocks. It’s filled with Bible references stirred with passion and … «NPR, Jul 15»

Wall Street seen lower as Greek crisis rocks markets

U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Monday, tracking European and Asian markets downwards, as the Greek crisis entered a new chapter after the instigation … «CNBC, Jun 15»

Peter Frampton didn’t play Red Rocks Amphitheatre last night

There was uncharacteristically light traffic on the road winding up to Red Rocks on Tuesday. But rounding a corner near the parking lot, a line of cars was held … «Reverb, Jun 15»

The Dating Business: Love on the Rocks

Like bunnies, dating apps have shown a knack for proliferation. With a young, increasingly busy and mobile audience, the allure of the dating app business can … «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

Ryan Adams at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (photos)

MORRISON, CO — JUNE 4: Ryan Adams and his band perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 4, 2015, in Morrison, Colorado. (Photo by Daniel Petty/The … «Reverb, Jun 15»

Rocks in the sky: a geological mystery – in pictures

If you’ve never seen a huge boulder hovering above the Earth against a brilliant blue sky, where have you been? As David Quentin’s photographs show, rocks … «The Guardian, Jun 15»

Man Seriously Injured During McKees Rocks Fight

MCKEES ROCKS (KDKA) – Police are investigating after a man was found lying in the middle of the street, covered in blood Sunday afternoon. According to … «CBS Local, Jun 15»

‘The Rocks‘ will keep you guessing

There’s a passage in The Rocks (*** out of four), Peter Nichols’ amiably erudite, ingeniously structured yet finally underachieving new novel, in which Luc, … «USA TODAY, May 15»

The Rocks by Peter Nichols: EW review

The Rocks opens with a disastrous run-in between Lulu and Gerald, two octogenarian British expats who have somehow largely managed to avoid each other … «Entertainment Weekly, May 15»

‘The Rocks,’ by Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols’s second novel, “The Rocks,” seems on the face of things to be an irresistibly sunny beach book. Most of it is set in the brightly lit Mediterranean, … «New York Times, May 15»

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