How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun

• The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
• The trick was to be able to heat limestone to 1,200 degrees.
  — Connie Nelson, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
• The redbuds bloomed, but in the limestone buildings, most of the doors were locked.
  — Christine Fernando, Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2020
• Work scows were up to 90 feet long and hauled coal, grain and limestone.
  — Diana Lambdin Meyer, USA Today, 28 June 2025
• The pendant lights are by Serge Mouille and the floor is made of three types of limestone.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
• The Catholic prayer for the faithful echoed off the limestone walls and marble floor of the high-ceilinged chapel.
  — Jon Marcus, NPR, 18 May 2025
• The name Jewett House is etched in limestone above the front door, Prince John said.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• Much of this class II trip is lined by sheer limestone bluffs.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2021
• Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• The grapes from the Eliphante block of this vineyard are rooted in silty limestone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2020
• That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• And somewhere between the light and the limestone, the Riviera will have worked its spell.
  — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
• Sandstone turned to sand and limestone cracked, crumbling the very old and the not very old at all alike.
  — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• This comes from vineyards in Touraine, on soils of clay, limestone and flint (the prized silex of the Loire Valley).
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 June 2022
• The azure waters of the Mediterranean sea contrast with the tall white limestone cliffs.
  — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• The marl and limestone bluffs are steep; the wood of the oaks is disconcertingly dark, the scrub spiny.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The left side of the road is a sheer cut of rock, quartzite, phyllite, and limestone laid bare by dynamite.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The best way to increase the pH of your soil is to use garden lime, which is made from crushed dolomitic limestone.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• Arnold next to the Townsend teak and limestone dining table.
  — Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 13 Mar. 2025
• The mortar mixture is lime-based and needs to be softer than the limestone.
  — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The Beckers shipped ore and limestone to Pittsburgh steel mills.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• Under limestone columns wrapped with star jasmine plants, the space is delightfully fragrant.
  — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
• Brielle, Karri, and Nunu wander among the limestone outcrops and sandstone spires.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
• The sun would blaze the limestone steps.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
• While the iron was replaced with steel and a new deck was added in the 1930s, the limestone pillars are original.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
• Paint chips can be rich in calcium carbonite (limestone), which crows not only like but need in a balanced diet.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026