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Deploying nets and traps from armored breakwalls and along shoreline boulders, their efforts weren't successful in 2024.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
3 July 2026 Its landscape features large boulders, sweeping views and pine trees (especially the eponymous loop).—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026 Rock glaciers are slow-moving masses of rock debris and ice that flow downhill the same way that glaciers do, but they are covered by a thick layer of rock and boulders that can easily be mistaken for stable ground.—
Ashlesha Khatiwada,
The Conversation,
1 July 2026 On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.—Literary Hub,
29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for boulder
Word History
Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone