How to Use metamorphic in a Sentence

metamorphic

adjective
  • It was fashioned from gneiss, a hard metamorphic rock.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • By the time the storms ended, two massive craters had been scoured into the metamorphic rock.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • All around him, eras of the country’s past are shoved together like layers of metamorphic rock.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In the summers, gray metamorphic rock is exposed along the coast, and fishing boats line the harbors.
    — Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Pleistocene Epoch ice sheets once covered the ancient metamorphic rocks of the shield.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2014
  • These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks– rocks transformed by heat, pressure or both.
    — Matthew J. Kohn, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Grief isn’t a linear, single track, but rather a metamorphic, living spiral.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The streaming company now finds itself on the edge of a metamorphic moment.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The metamorphic rock covers a poolside cabinet station, which is plumbed and wired.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The soils are mostly slate, making this one the few regions in the world where Pinot Noir vines are grown in metamorphic soils.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In life and work alike, his contradictions are pressed together like layers in metamorphic rock.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Soapstone is a metamorphic rock, composed mostly of the mineral talc, and has been used for carving for thousands of years.
    — oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In just a few short years, Vogue cover girl Zendaya has churned out a lifetime’s worth of metamorphic beauty looks.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 9 May 2019
  • The Cancer new moon enters you into a time of metamorphic transition.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Lapis is a metamorphic rock that has been treasured for its intense colour since the earliest civilizations.
    — Sonya Rehman, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The new year brings a lot of metamorphic cosmic energies our way, particularly around the self.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This is because granite and metamorphic rocks prevalent in the areas tend to contain high levels of uranium.
    — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The end result is to turn a fully mature cell back into something resembling a stem cell, with all the metamorphic powers that entails.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
  • A lot of bodies that are depicted but not in a traditional way, but rather distorted, expanded in a metamorphic phase.
    — Michael Kurcfeld, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • No planet has the complex melange of volcanic rocks, sediment, metamorphic rocks and cooled magma that are Earth's continents.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • To create these designs, artists first paint on a liquid lip color base coat, then meticulously add swirls and cracks in different hues to mimic the metamorphic rock.
    — Kelsi Zimmerman, Marie Claire, 2 May 2017
  • The researchers think the carbonate moved in long after the sediment had turned to rock, during that chemical-swapping metamorphic stage.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The mason did an extraordinary job of picking an assortment of small granite and other metamorphic rocks.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But the top 3,000 feet—the mountain's peak—is actually harder and older metamorphic rock.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2018
  • Give in to the metamorphic process happening within as Saturn harmonizes with Pluto.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • In Kansas and Oklahoma, the faults are in deep igneous and metamorphic rocks just beneath the sandstone layer used by the injection wells.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic, perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Ten thousand people live in the town that looks out at Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite peak topping out at 2,421 feet.
    — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 6 June 2017
  • The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Calcite and dolomite in sedimentary rocks, like limestone and dolostone, and metamorphic rocks, like marble, are soluble in water and tend to erode quickly.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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