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How to use the word rocks in a Sentence?

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We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler.

Josh Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw Molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm, and the charges are going to show that.

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of rocks can seem like they’re meteorites, but they’re not, we call these meteor-wrongs.

Maria Valdes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rocks are ancient beings, my job as a custodian is to share our stories and spread awareness in a way that makes people feel and understand the power of this place.

Josie Alec

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rocks that we have been investigating on the delta have the highest concentration of organic matter that we have yet found on the mission.

Ken Farley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The delta, with its diverse sedimentary rocks, contrasts beautifully with the igneous rocks -- formed from crystallization of magma -- discovered on the crater floor, this juxtaposition provides us with a rich understanding of the geologic history after the crater formed and a diverse sample suite. For example, we found a sandstone that carries grains and rock fragments created far from Jezero Crater.

Ken Farley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rioters burned tires, hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means.

The IDF

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our moon serves as basically a celestial library right next door, lunar rocks and lunar ice basically serve as the books of this library. We can use them to begin to reveal how the solar system has evolved. This can really help us gain insight into what was happening here on Earth when life was establishing a foothold in the solar system.

Jacob Bleacher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils.

Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see things differently. Rocks look suspicious to me as do certain hubcaps. Paranoia seeps through my pores, it’s just a part of me. Truthfully, I don’t know what to say anymore. My body is a piece of art; I don’t care about external scars, it’s the internal ones I live with and Satan dances towards me.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

They don’t really phase me, because I’ve got other things to worry about, don’t get me wrong, if I was getting vandalized, if I was getting rocks thrown, that’s something I would obviously have a concern about. But that’s not happening, thank God.

Alan Aguichev

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, I went to bed at 6 o’clock because I had to get up at 3. So I wanted to have a vodka on the rocks with a hot dog, so I’ll be doing that in her honor tonight.

Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have a rock formation that is basically composed of sedimentary rocks, so these are rocks that naturally have a much lower resistance to the action of winds, water, and the natural elements that act on the region.

Pedro Aihara

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the world community, the leaders of powerful states, and international organizations do not take bold decisions, the ever-threatening presence of vulnerable refugee women and children will continue to grow globally, together we must shake the rocks and the walls against the intransigence of the powerful of the Earth.

Archbishop Ieronymos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The graphite inside this ruby is really unique. It's the first time we've seen evidence of ancient life in ruby-bearing rocks.

Chris Yakymchuk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rocks are collected from the environment and there's bacteria in the environment, so if the rocks weren't sterilized before they went in, that's a possibility, the other thing is the possibility that another component was contaminated and the rocks made a little micro-environment in that bottle for the bacteria to grow in.

Jennifer McQuiston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When we get moderate to heavy rain over these recent burn scars, they can create ash or debris flows, what that means is mud, ash, and other debris such as trees, boulders and rocks can get picked up in a fast-moving flow( of water), and that can be really dangerous if people are caught in that.

Anna Wanless

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You need energetic flood conditions to carry rocks that big and heavy, it's a special thing that may be indicative of a fundamental change in the local hydrology or perhaps the regional climate on Mars.

Benjamin Weiss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It helps us understand so much more about the water cycle on Mars, from orbital images, we knew it had to be water that formed the delta, but having these images is like reading a book instead of just looking at the cover. This is the closest I will ever get to going to Mars and doing this work in person. Seeing these rocks as I would in real life, looking up at them, is really staggering and really beautiful.

Amy Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need more rocks on the coast, we’re like the soldiers in Iraq, we’re on the front line.

Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bottled water tastes like stale rocks

Colton Wilson

added by coltonwilson805
2 years ago

I used to think that hate could be defeated, it could be wiped out. But I learned a long time ago, it can't. It only hides. It hides. It hides under the rocks. And given any oxygen at all, it comes out. It's a minority view, but it comes out, and it comes out raging. And it's been given too much oxygen in the last four, five, seven, 10 years, and it has seen itself, whether it was -- I remember spending time at the -- you know, going to the -- you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with the -- just --.

President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We come in Friday, and Saturday we could hardly get on the beach because of the oil. When the tide goes out its awful it’s in the rocks, on the beach, it smells like crude oil.

Dennis Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The tactical management decision is not to insert fire crews due to safety concerns, however, this is not an unresponsive approach, smoke might be visible to Pacific Crest Trail hikers but the.25 acre fire is surrounded by granite rocks, a small lake and sparse fuels.

Forest Service

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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