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Meanings of stalactites in English
Synonyms
Examples for "grampus"
Examples for "grampus"
1
Gulls darted overhead; and past the canoe dived the great floundering grampus.
2
Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus.
3
The grampus, thirty feet long, never killed on the same account.
4
I, for one, was puffing, too- Iwaspanting like a grampus.
5
I gasped and coughed like a grampus: the stalk was down my throat still.
1
Are you an old mole, that you haven't seen it these six weeks?
2
And how that dazes me, old mole that I am, you yourselves have seen.
3
The old mole-eyed grump never sees anybody nor anything.
4
Two-year- old mole rats show just as much oxidative stress two-year-old mice -and then live for another quarter-century
5
Well, old mole, if you had not been as blind as a bat you would have seen that all winter.
Usage of stalactites in English
1
In one cavern six curious blade-shaped stalactites are called the Major Chimes.
2
The stalactites here are very beautiful, assuming the structure of satin spar.
3
Here Edgeworth adds a long description of the grotto and its stalactites.
4
Above us, almost lost in the gloom, was a ceiling of stalactites.
5
He pointed toward a narrow cleft between two stalactites near the roof.
6
His long white moustachios hung under his chin like two marble stalactites.
7
In the showroom, stalactites of dead insects cluster on strips of flypaper.
8
Congealed columns of vomit, shit, and mucus suspended from it like stalactites.
9
The two girls were like petrifactions: they were in the attitude of stalactites.
10
The crystal pendants of the great chandelier looked like stalactites in a cave.
11
The string-courses were encrusted with stalactites in a manner singularly beautiful.
12
Talen held the torch higher, illuminating the path beyond the stalactites.
13
The sweet tones echoed among the stalactites, lingering as if loth to die.
14
Great jagged teeth pointed up and down, like stalagmites and stalactites.
15
In cathedral-like chambers stalactites sparkle like chandeliers and form delicate curtains and shawls.
16
Ghostly stalactites hung from overhead rocks, caused by the seep of calcium-rich groundwater.
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Stalactites through the time
Stalactites across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common