How to Use dolomite in a Sentence

dolomite

noun

• Made from ground-up rock, limestone, or dolomite, lime is high in calcium.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2021
• Its panorama of dolomite Alps like shark teeth reaching skyward is worth the crowds.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• But none of them can match the beauty of these frozen gold flames of resinous wood, twisting up from the rocky, white dolomite soil.
  — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• But for certain sludge-dwelling bacteria, making dolomite is no problem at all.
  — Rachel Preiser, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Much of that is the soft, pale, alkaline dolomite that gives the range its name – a kind of limestone preferred by the bristlecone pines.
  — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• This bedrock includes limestone, dolomite and gypsum, and over time, groundwater has dissolved some of it.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• The blue dolomite structure has turrets, terraces, and towering chimneys for three dozen fireplaces.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• As years passed, marine sediments formed a layer of limestone known as dolomite nearly 100 feet thick.
  — Julia Griffin, Scientific American, 9 June 2017
• Just like Drummond's dolomite foundation, this vehicle is rock solid.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2020
• Any calcium supplements that also contain dolomite should be avoided.
  — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2025
• Even more telling are microfossils that Knauth and his colleagues have unearthed from ancient holes pocking the barren surface of the dolomite.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• Li says the ant’s armor is very similar in composition to the mineral dolomite, except slightly harder.
  — National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
• In designer Kevin Dumais midcentury modern Tribeca loft, the walls and floor are sheathed in white dolomite marble.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 3 May 2022
• Check out the rare forest seeps, where water wells up from holes in the ground, as well as the dolomite glade, which is representative of the Ozarks but rare in this particular region.
  — Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
• Calcite and dolomite in sedimentary rocks, like limestone and dolostone, and metamorphic rocks, like marble, are soluble in water and tend to erode quickly.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• The element naturally occurs in minerals such as brucite, magnesite, dolomite, and carnalite.
  — Alyssa Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Magnesium is found in magnesium-bearing carbonate minerals like dolomite and magnesite.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
• The auditorium resembles a ship's prow and its sides echo the cliff walls of the quarry where congregants collected 1,000 tons of dolomite.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Some Kewaunee residents say manure from growing dairy herds is too much for an area characterized by shallow soils and fractured bedrock called Silurian dolomite.
  — Jesse Newman and Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• Soluble rocks like limestone, dolomite, and gypsum are submerged under water, where the minerals slowly dissolve into the surrounding water.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2020
• Vulcan Quarries donated two dump trucks full of the Ketona dolomite and Manion was able to grow several of the Glade species at the garden.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2019
• With too many close-calls, the couple travels to the snowy dolomites in Italy to take down other spies and soon after are ordered to go to Lake Como for a kidnapping assignment.
  — Malik Peay, Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
• Covering an area more than twice the size of Brooklyn, the grasslands contain hundreds of complex dolomite caves, and more than a dozen early hominin dig sites with names like Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
• The other important minerals available in significant quantities are limestone, dolomite, manganese, mica, china clay, graphite, fire clay, coal bed methane, uranium, phosphorite, apatite, quartz, gold, feldspar and pyroxenite.
  — Gurvinder Singh, Quartz India, 4 Oct. 2019
• Many of the rifugi are overseen by matriarchs such as the cheerful Claudia Valleferro at the Berghotel Passo Giau, an old-school hut dwarfed by a great hunk of dolomite that resembles a gargantuan middle finger.
  — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2024