Boulder

//ˈbəʊl.də(ɹ)//

"Boulder" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Mr Sato was standing on top of a boulder.

The catapult hurled the boulder over the castle walls.

Moving a huge boulder is going to be very hard.

Tom sat alone on a boulder.

NASA is developing a first-ever robotic mission to visit a large near-Earth asteroid and collect a multi-ton boulder from its surface.

And then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die. "Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder.

The prayer finished, they resumed their seat in the shadow of the boulder until the child fell asleep, nestling upon the broad breast of her protector.

On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.

Move that boulder away from the barn.

Tom sat on the large boulder.

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There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.

He bouldered a route in the same area with ease. Mitchell, 11, was hanging with the older kids in an area where bouldering nearly upside down seemed to be....

As the week unfolded, we were taught about the equipment we needed, how to tie a rope and what to wear. We learnt to balance on our feet rather than cling on with our arms and to trust our rock shoes, the moulded rubber slippers that can grip the smoothest of surfaces. We abseiled, bouldered and belayed.

There's even old climbing hardware in it because people bouldered on it for years.

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