ADAMANT in a Sentence

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For ADAMANT, below is one of 13 sentences:
In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADAMANT
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adamant
 a.  extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
Classic Sentence:
1  The bottom, or under surface, which appears to those who view it below, is one even regular plate of adamant, shooting up to the height of about two hundred yards.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
2  In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
3  This magnet is sustained by a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle, upon which it plays, and is poised so exactly that the weakest hand can turn it.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
4  It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
5  The stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the hoop and its feet are one continued piece with that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
6  But it looked at me over the head of Red Whisker, and I was adamant.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
7  In the matter of "comp'ny" Mammy was equally adamant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
Example Sentence:
1  The Americans are adamant that they will not budge on this point.
2  We are adamant on the building of a well - off society.
3  Speaker Pelosi came out of that meeting, and she was once again adamant about saying a public option must be in the bill.
4  If only they were as adamant with completing school, getting employment and becoming a productive member of society rather than settling for living in terrible areas and falling into line with the stereotype.