rockier; rockiest
1
: abounding in or consisting of rocks
2
: difficult to impress or affect : insensitive
3
: firmly held : steadfast
rockier; rockiest
Examples of rocky in a Sentence
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Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2024
As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
Trail is rocky and uneven, so wear comfortable shoes.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Since the early 2000s, China has been expanding rocky reefs and sand bars that speckle the waters of the South China Sea in order to strengthen its claims over the waters that surround them.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Aerial footage Wednesday night from KTLA-TV showed a gray-silver vehicle had tumbled more than 100 feet off the cliffside into the brush and rocky ravine below.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Visitors to the beach take a dirt road and descend a rocky path.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Likewise, oxygen was considered a biosignature gas until the 2010s, when researchers including Victoria Meadows at the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory began to find ways that rocky planets could accumulate oxygen without a biosphere.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Adjective
Nested into a rocky outcropping, the asymmetrical roofline resembles the beetle’s elytra (its hard outer shell), and much of the exterior is clad in weathered corten steel, which lasts more than 25 years and can be recycled as raw material.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2024
As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
Trail is rocky and uneven, so wear comfortable shoes.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Since the early 2000s, China has been expanding rocky reefs and sand bars that speckle the waters of the South China Sea in order to strengthen its claims over the waters that surround them.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Aerial footage Wednesday night from KTLA-TV showed a gray-silver vehicle had tumbled more than 100 feet off the cliffside into the brush and rocky ravine below.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Visitors to the beach take a dirt road and descend a rocky path.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Likewise, oxygen was considered a biosignature gas until the 2010s, when researchers including Victoria Meadows at the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory began to find ways that rocky planets could accumulate oxygen without a biosphere.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
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“Rocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocky. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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