How to Use tuff in a Sentence

tuff

noun

• But for the next generation, even just the tuff at the back was enough to stand out.
  — Jesse Klein, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025
• About 95 percent are carved from the volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Burial remains were also found grouped together in lined pits covered with tuff slabs.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025
• The crew made its way around low-growing cactuses, through prickly and fragrant sage, over tuffs of wild grasses.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• The crew made its way around low-growing cactuses, through prickly and fragrant sage, over tuffs of wild grasses.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• The original tuff arches carried the Marcia across a steep ravine.
  — David Laskin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
• The rock formation is what’s known as a tuff ring, which rises magnificently above all else around it.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
• The site is named Wuda tuff after the district of Mongolia where it was found.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
• Except for its tuff-guppy face, the Prius Prime is an unassuming mode of transport.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• About 95 percent of them were carved out of tuff ejected from volcano Rano Raraku.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
• By counting up the decay products, Saylor’s team could tell when the crystals—and the tuff as a whole—were created.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The area is known for its Bishop tuff — a type of rock formed by super-heated volcanic ash, which is of interest to researchers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
• Interspersed with the in-person dancers are film sequences within the 400-feet-deep tuff quarry.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Chiaia di Luna, a huge bay that backs into a dramatic tuff wall, has one of the island’s few sandy beaches.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2018
• Others are more roughly hewn from tuff, a soft volcanic rock from which the famous Seven Hills of Rome are formed.
  — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
• As an additional defensive measure, the dwellings, constructed with blocks of pumice-like tuff, had tiny door openings.
  — Frank O. Sotomayor, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Some of the most striking sights within the Cappadocia Plateau are villages carved into the volcanic tuff.
  — George W. Stone, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Perched on a brownish-red tuff promontory near the Umbrian border, Civita is a place where time stands still.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
• What did that earth remember, that patch of chalky Pleistocene tuff full of the petrified remains of pre-people and their stone hand axes?
  — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
• Limestone brick arches alternate with smooth tuff walls, some pockmarked, while others are chiseled with geometric shapes.
  — Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2025
• Neolithic ax heads were commonly made of materials like flint, volcanic tuff and granite.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• All fossil plants at Wuda tuff have modern living relatives except for this set of rare specimens.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
• Other rare finds at the site include a small bronze panther, a mosaic glass spindle whorl, and a tuff — or rock — votive, according to the release.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
• Here, on its slopes, all the island’s moai were carved from tuff (volcanic ash, which is easier to work with), before being transported as far as 11 miles away.
  — Nic McCormack, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
• Instantly, the summer heat of Rome was replaced by the cold, clammy air of tunnels that, like the Labyrinth of Rome, were first carved to mine tuff.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
• But others have long since disappeared, leaving behind ash, lava, tuff, and mineral-rich soils that influence some of Italy’s most compelling wines.
  — Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• There are older consolidated rocks, loose volcanic tuff produced by explosive eruptions, and a variety of clays, which may or may not contain hot water.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• But roughly 30 kilometers away, deposits of tuff — volcanic ash turned to rock, which often holds zeolite — sit above an aquifer known locally for its sweet and clear water.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• Some minerals in tuff contain traces of radioactive potassium-40, which decay like clockwork from the time the minerals were created until the present.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• Its Bolnisi tuff façade, monumental cornices, and double atriums gave it a commanding presence on the city’s main thoroughfare.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025