How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun

• And those slabs of limestone around it.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
• The sun would blaze the limestone steps.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
• The floors were laid with black-and-white limestone tiles.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
• The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
• The same thing can be said about the island’s limestone.
  — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
• If your soil is limestone-based, amend it with a bit of sulfur.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 27 May 2026
• That's when the river first found a tiny crack in the limestone ridge.
  — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• Work scows were up to 90 feet long and hauled coal, grain and limestone.
  — Diana Lambdin Meyer, USA Today, 28 June 2025
• Use this sudden pause near rocks, logs, limestone ledges, and drop-offs.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Much of this class II trip is lined by sheer limestone bluffs.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2021
• This has the effect of forming limestone bridges to close a crack.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
• It was likely built on limestone piers, with a tall roof and grand porches.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• The redbuds bloomed, but in the limestone buildings, most of the doors were locked.
  — Christine Fernando, Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2020
• The region's soils consist of limestone, clay, and iron-rich loams.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Borders of rough rocks, such as large chunks of limestone or riprap, can be added along the edges of ponds.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
• And that water is able to dissolve the limestone and carry it out of the cave.
  — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The board was made out limestone that was imported from France.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026
• The mortar mixture is lime-based and needs to be softer than the limestone.
  — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
  — Ike Morgan | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Perch, an entirely off-grid house on a limestone plateau.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
• Many people bike the park's crushed-limestone trail one way, then take the train back to their starting point.
  — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
• The grapes from the Eliphante block of this vineyard are rooted in silty limestone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Then, the limestone piece surfaces, cracked and missing a few inches off the top.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
• Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• By night, enjoy the wavy shoreline and ochre limestone bluffs from your campsite.
  — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
• The main floor has a great room 25 feet long with a massive limestone fireplace.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 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
• Crews drilled through limestone to make the tunnel and then lined it with concrete, Roberts said.
  — Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026