How to Use boulder in a Sentence

boulder

noun

• Trust the car, wait for the brakes, and slide four feet down the face of a boulder half the size of the Bronco.
  — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• The bone, which is just over 3 feet in length, was found in a boulder on the shore.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2020
• The car was lodged on top of a large boulder, with both front tires off the ground.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• The crew made its way through a creek and around boulders to reach the hiker.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• That whole process was like rolling a boulder up a hill.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 30 June 2022
• Once landed, the crew made their way through the creek and boulders to the hiker.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The boulders that formed the sea wall did not come from nearby.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Once past the boulder-jumbled gully, the road heads up the east face of the canyon wall.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
• The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• And then Marcus Jones launched the biggest boulder of the day.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The terrain varies from one area to the next — from sandy bottom to deep mud to boulders the size of a house.
  — Richard C. Paddock, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• The movement of the boulder can be seen in the slider below.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The boulder is always waiting to be rolled up the hill.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• In some ways, Mr. Aron is trying to push a boulder up a hill.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
• In other words, remove the hill and just let the boulder roll along.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• From the ridge, a gorge to the north spills milky roiling waters across boulders.
  — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• Climbers get four minutes to reach the top of the boulder with both hands, and there are four boulders in the round.
  — Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The rover came upon a white-striped rock within the field of blue boulders.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2024
• The bottom was buried under a mass of slabs and boulders.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
• All of this with miles of scrub and boulders and endless sky right outside the door.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• In Paris, medals will be awarded for both speed and for the combo of lead and boulder.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2021
• The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Then a 20-foot wall of trees, boulders and mud rockets straight at them.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
• Turn left and hike up for about a half mile over a boulder field to Statue Lake.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
• The mega-tsunami wreaked havoc across the landscape, stripping forests down to bare rock, ripping trees out by their roots and hurling boulders.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
• But by the boulder the real action was social and discursive.
  — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• The car hit a landscape boulder, went airborne and crashed into the church’s second story before landing on the ground near the building.
  — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
• These can be used to create a border around medium or large, rounded river rocks or boulders.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
• Ponds is a small corner who, like his new head coach, plays like a man twice his own size — with a boulder on his shoulder the size of New Jersey.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026