Examples of schist in a Sentence
Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
Stephen Rowland, a paleontologist in the UNLV department of geoscience, told me that the Precambrian granite and schist at the base are about 1.7 billion years old.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
In her book, there is a picture of a giant boulder in Upper Manhattan sandwiched between two residential buildings on Bennett Avenue, a protrusion of Manhattan schist about three stories tall rising out of the ground.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
The lightness proved helpful both in forestalling fatigue during the long overland stretches and in facilitating the pair’s most triumphant moment: scaling the hundred-plus feet of schist up to the castle with canoes perched on shoulders, and stumbling only briefly near the top.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
In the southern province of Otago, rivers also carry gold eroded from the basement schist across the landscape.
—Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
Downstream, Wu Qinglong and his team found a wide swath of sediments that matched what a raging flood would have carried from Jishi Gorge: mostly fragments of purple-brown mudrock and green schist, washed into the lower Jishi Gorge and downstream into the Guanting Basin.
—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2016
No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
The river has been flowing in its course for millions of years, downcutting through layers of sandstone, limestone, granite, shale and schist to form the Grand Canyon.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
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Word History
borrowed from French schiste (Middle French pierre schiste, with pierre "stone"), borrowed from Latin schistos (in Pliny's Naturalis historia) "a kind of iron ore, perhaps limonite," shortened from lapis schistos, literally, "fissile stone," from lapis "stone" + schistos "easily split, fissile," borrowed from Greek schistós "split, divided," verbal adjective of schízein "to split, separate" — more at shed entry 1
circa 1782, in the meaning defined above
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“Schist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schist. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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