How to Use boulder in a Sentence

boulder

noun
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  • Trust the car, wait for the brakes, and slide four feet down the face of a boulder half the size of the Bronco.
    — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The car was lodged on top of a large boulder, with both front tires off the ground.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The crew made its way through a creek and around boulders to reach the hiker.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • That whole process was like rolling a boulder up a hill.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • Once landed, the crew made their way through the creek and boulders to the hiker.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Once past the boulder-jumbled gully, the road heads up the east face of the canyon wall.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
    — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • And then Marcus Jones launched the biggest boulder of the day.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The movement of the boulder can be seen in the slider below.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The boulder is always waiting to be rolled up the hill.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In other words, remove the hill and just let the boulder roll along.
    — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Climbers get four minutes to reach the top of the boulder with both hands, and there are four boulders in the round.
    — Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
  • The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The rover came upon a white-striped rock within the field of blue boulders.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • All of this with miles of scrub and boulders and endless sky right outside the door.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In Paris, medals will be awarded for both speed and for the combo of lead and boulder.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Turn left and hike up for about a half mile over a boulder field to Statue Lake.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • Alexandra reached a boulder by shore and yelled for help.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Though the boulder is heavy and the mountain high, Lyons said no one is ready to quit pushing.
    — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Hell, there’s even run-from-the-boulder style segments.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be easy to miss.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • Joel picks up a nearby boulder as big as a car and heaves it at the red unicorn.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
  • On Asahi-dake, hikers are told to look for a big square boulder, known as Safe Rock.
    — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • The stone is an erratic, a boulder that was moved by the glaciers that pushed through the state thousands of years ago.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • Think of cobbles and boulders instead of beachy (sand) bars.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • For our lifeforms stuck on that boulder, this would bring food.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Feb. 2021
  • The landscape was a steep boulder field with three-foot-tall tufts of mountain grass between the rocks.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The only thing ready was a four-foot-high boulder with rock climbing holds for the little ones to conquer.
    — Emme Hall, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Once the cut scene begins, with a near 1:1 recreation of the sequence of the boulder dropping, things start to get ugly — literally.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024

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