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Featuring mini boulders, the aforementioned blue flowers, and a staff with metallic skulls, the scene had all the whimsy of a fantastical milieu.—Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024 The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated, and sleeping Virginians awoke to find their houses buried in muddy boulders or floating down what had previously been trickling streams.—Justin McBrien / Made By History, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024 This cool Pop has Indiana Jones frozen in time, escaping the enormous boulder with the Golden Idol in hand.—Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2024 Ruby and Hart loved to scramble up the massive boulders in Joshua Tree State Park, and my sister Gail and brother-in-law Colin loved the surreal vistas and glorious calm away from their hectic lives in Los Angeles.—Betsy Lerner, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for boulder
Word History
Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone
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