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How to use the word marble in a Sentence?

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The man who was responsible for these explosions, it becomes clear, made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed, as they install this foundation within the Natanz facility, they have no idea that it already includes an enormous amount of explosives.

Ilana Dayan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's so heartwarming that the whole community [has] –like strangers –helped us out and they're still helping us, me and Marble are so blessed to have them.

Dino Rasera

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

At a time when we are confronted by climate change with phenomena such as the current heatwave, we reaffirmed our ambitions with this law... by inscribing in marble the principle of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

De Rugy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I've got one message for the protesters and that is: Please, go to Marble Arch where you can protest lawfully. Stop your unlawful protest, and if you don't want to go to Marble Arch, then go home.

Cressida Dick

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Having just been in Italy, I fell in love with the marble streets and sidewalks of Verona, millions of footsteps pound and torture that stone daily, but the abuse creates the exquisite finish.

Dawn Carroll

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The eagles don't sit for you, they are wild birds, i was missing images all the time. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a shot, then it disappears like water on a hot marble plate.

Palani Mohan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's lately become a reminder to me that we don't always get exactly what we want in politics, you got the job with actual power and authority. And I got a very nice marble bust.

Dick Cheney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I tell women to do monthly breast exams, not to look for something huge, but to look for something new the size of a marble or walnut, if they aren’t comfortable, they should ask their physician how.

Julie Nangia

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I tell women to do monthly breast exams, not to look for something huge, but to look for something new the size of a marble or walnut, if they are n’t comfortable, they should ask their physician how.

Julie Nangia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not just the legends and the giants of the Civil Rights Movement like Dr. King and John Lewis, but the countless American heroes whose names aren't in the history books that aren't etched on marble somewhere — ordinary men and women from all corners of this nation, all walks of life, black and white, rich and poor, students, scholars, maids, ministers — all who marched and who sang and organized to change this country for the better.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

Adrienne Rich

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10 years ago

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

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13 years ago

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.

Michaelangelo

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13 years ago

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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13 years ago

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

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14 years ago

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

Arabic Parable

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14 years ago

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

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14 years ago

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

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14 years ago

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

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14 years ago

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears

John Ruskin

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14 years ago

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webster

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14 years ago

(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble.

Hack Wilson

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14 years ago

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Caesar Augustus

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14 years ago

It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

Henry Brougham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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