How to Use basalt in a Sentence

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• This ocean canyon heaves waves of shale and basalt, quartz and silt.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• The trail twists and winds its way to the top along the traprock and basalt ridge.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• They're formed from basalt lava and have become smooth over time.
  — Liz Dufour, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
• It has been discovered that one kind of stone, basalt, is used.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• The Moon’s basalt looks the same as basalt found inside the Earth.
  — Nicole Granucci, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2024
• The floors and some of the walls on the first floor are Gunnison basalt.
  — Michael Lassell, ELLE Decor, 7 Feb. 2011
• Despite the moniker—flood basalts—these are not raging torrents.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
• The island is a craggy basalt rock that juts up from water so rough that boats cannot dock.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Gaze up at the northern lights from your cottage’s own heated basalt-stone hot pools.
  — Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 9 Mar. 2026
• About 95 percent are carved from the volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The eruptions in Hawaii produce a type of lava called basalt.
  — Emily Johnson, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2022
• The basalt would absorb the carbon dioxide and turn it into rock.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• The planet is believed to be covered in basalt, or volcanic rock.
  — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Their idea was that water in the lake could have met with groundwater coming through the basalt.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• The basalt tools include mace-type objects and anvils, which would have been utilized to crack and crush plant foods.
  — Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• The acres of raw, blocky basalt look as fresh as the flows shown spilling from Kilauea on the nightly news.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• In the past, rock quarries would didn't have much use for the basalt rock dust that was a waste product of their mining process.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025
• The entryways from Filbert and Union streets now are marked by basalt tiles.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• The difference between bronze and stone is not like that between bronze and steel or granite and basalt.
  — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
• The restaurant’s communal table was made from a 17-ton slab of basalt stone.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2021
• The professor glanced at them and informed her that all four were basalt, one of the most common rocks on the planet.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• Dug out of basalt, a dark volcanic rock, the tunnel was carved in the late 19th century.
  — Greg Brick, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Tuff, which is soft and porous and formed out of volcanic ash, is topped by basalt, which is harder and less permeable.
  — Katie Kitamura, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
• Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The farm is near a seaside town called Castlerock that is damp to its basalt with the smell of the Atlantic.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• And 600 kilometers to the east, there are more recent basalt seamounts at the bottom of the ocean.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• The black basalt station in Daraa, the second-largest in Syria, is in ruins.
  — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2025
• Here, the cliffs were covered in vegetation, with knife-edge spurs and basalt towers that soared into the dark clouds above.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• The Río Grande carves an 800-foot deep gorge through layers of volcanic basalt flows and ash.
  — latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• My deep tissue massage using warm basalt stones and a local scrub made with salt from the nearby ponds left me in a dreamlike trance.
  — Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025