MARBLE in a Sentence

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For MARBLE, below is one of 117 sentences:
That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
marble
 n.  hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  Candide was at once conducted to a beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parraquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, guinea-hens, and all other rare birds.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
2  The gardens, laid out with taste, were adorned with fine marble statues.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
3  The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  David d'Angers was trying to work in marble.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
5  It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
6  She has become marble in becoming mire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
7  He was the marble lover of liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
8  He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
9  She made of her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
10  Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
11  A moment later one of these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee of marble upon his breast.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
12  In order to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster sufficed for God.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
13  Marius looked at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
14  His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
15  And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my cousin's salute belonged to one of these classes.
2  Silent in bare feet, he swiftly crossed the cold marble floor, sliding into bed just as the door creaked open.
3  That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.
4  With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.
5  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
6  I saw they quarry blocks of marble out of the hillside.
7  The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.
8  He is chipping away at a block marble with a chisel.
9  What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
10  The dome was supported by white marble columns.
11  The water fountain became an altar, standing on marble pillars and graced by its own fan design.
12  They put up a marble tablet in memory of his father.
13  The object of great interest at the Temple was a large marble tower built in memory of Buddha.
14  The white marble floors were inlaid in a radial pattern of brass.
15  The phrase "to lose one's marbles" is an idiom: if I say that Joe's lost his marbles, I'm not asking you to find some for him. I'm telling you that he's crazy.