Synonyms for hard rock

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hahrd-rok

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˌrɒk

Définition of hard rock

noun form of rock and roll

Example sentences :

Then he, too, relaxed on the hard rock and sank into heavy sleep.
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

Of course a hard rock must be selected, such as granite or trap rock.
Extract from : « Diggers in the Earth » by Eva March Tappan

They put the flint on a hard rock and struck it with a heavy blow.
Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

There was also a hard rock, not far from our lodgings, split through.
Extract from : « Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 » by Jasper Danckaerts

Slowly, with powerful blows, he bores a hole in the hard rock.
Extract from : « Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines » by R.M. Ballantyne

The ground now was hard rock, not earth, and it rang under his steps.
Extract from : « Pabo, The Priest » by Sabine Baring-Gould

Here he may have learned that the coney makes its dwelling in the hard rock.
Extract from : « Palestine » by Claude Reignier Conder

Perhaps the hard rock was chiselled with tools of tempered copper.
Extract from : « Steam Steel and Electricity » by James W. Steele

He could not bury the body, for the ground was hard rock, and he had no tools.
Extract from : « Australian Pictures » by Howard Willoughby

The hammer bit its way slowly but surely into the face of the hard rock.
Extract from : « Renshaw Fanning's Quest » by Bertram Mitford

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