How to Use schist in a Sentence

schist

noun
  • Veins of schist and quartz run through its fractured sandstone soils.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2020
  • One is made from grapes grown on granite soil, the other from grapes grown on schist.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Rowland says that the granite and schist formed deep inside an ancient mountain range.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
  • No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
  • The soils are mainly Galestro, a type of very friable clay-schist composed of clay-limestone and sandy loam.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Black Canyon is a park of extremes, both fertile springtime folly and menacing gash of gneiss and schist.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
  • But not all of Piedmont has limestone — the Gattinara area, for instance, is all schist.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2017
  • When that appetite faded and drinkers turned to lighter wines, the appellation had only to lean back into what its schist already gave.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • One night, two massive schist reliefs in the entrance hall, which had seemed too heavy to remove, disappeared, presumably by truck.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The penitentiary was built of brick and Wissahickon schist, a grayish black local stone.
    — Cantor Glenn Sherman, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2022
  • In the southern province of Otago, rivers also carry gold eroded from the basement schist across the landscape.
    — Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • At higher altitudes and grown with care, the Douro’s schist soils can produce taut, focused whites that seem to express the spirit of rock itself.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • This Savennières, from sandy schist soils in the Anjou region, is richly textured, bright and succulent.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Advertisement The base layer of the PV cake is Catalina schist.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • The schist and granite at the bottom of the canyon are almost two billion years old, with younger and younger layers of sandstone, shale and limestone stacked on top in horizontal bands.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • Unlike Vouvray to the east, where chenin blanc is grown predominantly on clay and limestone soils, the grapes of Savennières are grown on schist.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • However, a decade earlier, work crews tunneling through the area had discovered that the canyon was layered through with schist in its northeastern section.
    — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Artist Randall Nelson of Willington located and secured the schist, and carved and installed the stone.
    — courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The other night, Senator Feinstein basically had to be carried up the schist steps to the Basin.
    — Robert Carlock, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The river has been flowing in its course for millions of years, downcutting through layers of sandstone, limestone, granite, shale and schist to form the Grand Canyon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The developers of Morningside Heights found lots of Manhattan schist.
    — William J. Broad George Etheredge, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The highlight of the park is of course the gorge, where walls of red-gray rhyolite schist, a hard volcanic rock, rise up to 40 feet along the Eau Claire River.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Atop the unchanging schist, the people replaced each other, the ethnic tribes from all over trading places in the tenements and townhouses, which in turn fell and were replaced by the next buildings.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • And, in a 1911 report, Mulholland and Lipincott wrote that the schist might be unstable.
    — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
  • For four decades the appellation prospered on a reputation for concentration and the firm tannic grip of Syrah and Grenache grown in its famous schist soils.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Soils consisting of granite, limestone, and schist contribute to this wine’s mineral-laden characteristics.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Western South Dakota has some of the finest hunks of sandstone, mica schist, granite, and phonolite porphyry in the American West.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The vineyard sits on slopes averaging roughly 25%, with only about 25 centimeters of topsoil before roots encounter solid schist.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Red blend of Syrah (of which 50% is grown on schist soils and 20% undergoes carbonic maceration) and the rest Mourvèdre and Grenache.
    — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Woolery encourages a broad, telegraphic style in her actors, but Tousey, as Bobbie, operates from a stillness as foundational as that Manhattan schist.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023

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