How to Use marble in a Sentence
- I love to play with marbles.
- The statue is made of marble.
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This one is for all the marbles.
—Miami Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
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The marble steps that lead up to it.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
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And the same goes for the wood or marble cladding.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
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Then, race the marbles down the tracks to see who has the fastest one.
—Parents, 11 June 2026
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Liu leans against a marble wall in the lobby.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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Even mild soap left behind can leave a film on marble over time.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
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What is the best cleaner for marble?
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
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If the stain isn’t pulled out of the marble, try the poultice again.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
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This isn't your chintzy golf club with lawn chairs and marble fountains.
—Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
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In the back garden of the house was a maze made of marble, the walls high.
—Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
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Then the contest lost its marbles.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
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How often should marble be cleaned?
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
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From marble trays to stone vases, look for items that feel hefty in your hand.
—Heather Bien, Martha Stewart, 25 Feb. 2026
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Avoid overused tile colors like gray, navy, brown-beige, black, and white marble.
—Cori Sears, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
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The marble board has a striped design and a leather loop at the handle.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
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He was supposed to be a legend carved in marble.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
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Or perhaps a sleek black marble number is more your speed?
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Feb. 2026
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The black marble desk adds a touch of urban glamour.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
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The kitchen’s teal marble island.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 26 Jan. 2026
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Each bedroom has a bath, the largest one laced with marble amenities.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
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Lightly flour a smooth, non-stick surface such as marble or wood.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
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The trio posed in front of a marble staircase with their arms around each other.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
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In the bathroom that adjoins the home gym, a soft-pink marble steals the show.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
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Every man goes through a chess phase; be prepared for his with a swanky marble set.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Mar. 2026
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All jawline and tawny hair, strapping, like he’s made of marble?
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2025
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Polished marble floors throughout give it that five-star feel.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
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It also shouldn’t be used on leather, marble, or fiberglass.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
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But act quickly—some pieces, like the marble wine chiller, have already sold out.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
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The powder-blue canopy of the sky is marbled with fluffy streaks of white.
—Lauren Gibbons Paul, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
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First, use one of the six syrups (brown sugar, matcha or taro) to marble your cup.
—Jacorey Moon, goodhousekeeping.com, 4 May 2023
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Prime rib is a desirable cut of beef, known for its rich flavor and marbling from fat.
—Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2026
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The lack of marbling, fat, and bone diminishes the beefy taste of these cuts.
—Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2026
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Use a toothpick to swirl and marble your food coloring droplets.
—Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2021
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Use a toothpick to swirl and marble your food coloring droplets.
—Stephanie Shore Fisher, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2017
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The intact clam was quarter-sized, its ivory shell marbled with brown and purplish lines.
—Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
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Half a dozen raw slices of highly marbled beef short rib and paper-thin onion come with a tiny and sizzling hot grill.
—Jennifer Graue, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2017
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Beyond the Supreme Court’s marbled walls, those virtues are rarely seen by the public.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
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This gridiron was a patchwork of dying yellow grass marbled with large brown splotches of dirt.
—AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
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All outfits included a large sash around the waist marbled with bright greens and abstract florals.
—Emily Wang, Teen Vogue, 12 Oct. 2018
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McQueen’s work asks us to confront the ways that awe at beauty can be marbled with disgust.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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McQueen’s work asks us to confront the ways that our awe at beauty can be marbled with disgust.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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The ludicrous amount of marbling on the filet melts over the coals, resulting in steak that could be cut with a plastic spoon.
—Stan Parish, WSJ, 19 June 2018
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This place understands flat iron, that marbled chop from the shoulder clod, fanned out in six fat slices to show off its medium-rare core.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
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Get a sense of how the gelatin works and feels before attempting complex designs such as layers or marbling.
—Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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The tomato is an heirloom variety known for being hefty in size with yellow skin and flesh marbled with red streaks.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2019
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The resultant porco preto is marbled with fat, filled with flavor.
—Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
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To create marbling, run a table knife (or wooden skewer) through the batters in a swirling motion.
—Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026
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After the eggs soak in the dye, pat them with a paper towel and add pencil details to create a marbling effect.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
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The marbling method, a simple smoosh, pinch, and roll, creates bakery-worthy swirls in every cookie.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2025
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In the step-by-step of it (marbling the imagined with the real), Prescott sustains a breathless tension.
—Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
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But the sleeper hit is the cinnamon raisin bagel, marbled with warm cinnamon and studded with sweet golden raisins.
—The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
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Try marbling a coffee cake, tahini brownies, or different colors of meringue.
—Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 29 Mar. 2018
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The chops from slower-growing heritage pork breeds are blessed with meat that is marbled, and therefore tastier and more succulent.
—David Tanis David Tanis David Tanis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2017
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Black pigs hold fat differently, too; with much of it marbled throughout the muscle not unlike Wagyu beef.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
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The meat is known for being intensely marbled with fat that delivers a richer beef flavor and a more tender, moist cut.
—Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2019
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The can is marbled with hyperpop swirls and announcements of its 0 grams of sugar and monk fruit sweetener.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2023
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Some bakers suggest marbling your buttercream on a sheet of parchment paper and then transferring it to your cake in one fell swoop.
—Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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From that grill came a sculpted two-bone pork chop with a golden crust and a juicy white center marbled with fat — this review’s best value at $20.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2018
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