Definitions
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- adjective as hard as granite.
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- adjective Resembling
granite .
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- adjective hard as granite
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sport suited her unwavering, granitelike determination.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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On land, igneous rocks can he granitelike material or they can he lava.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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On land, igneous rocks can he granitelike material or they can he lava.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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She pulled his shirt up, and slid her hands beneath it, to caress the warm, granitelike flesh of his back and his ribs, the downy wall of his chest.
Pirates Linda Miller 1995
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He said nothing, and after studying his granitelike countenance for a moment she made a move to rise.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Perhaps because Grant too was destroyed by the dualities of life: the total, granitelike integrity of the Memoirs, written as the author died of throat cancer, as against the slack and hopeless presidency.
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Updated granitelike counter tops and woodlike flooring in entry and kitchen.
craigslist | apts/housing for rent in washington, DC webmaster@craigslist.org 2010
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What I am mainly trying to do is to dismantle the granitelike assumption in our political culture that American conservatism is an offshoot or cousin of fascism.
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The girls 'distinctive qualities-from Trini's bubbly self-confidence to Dominique's granitelike demeanor-were abundantly evident in Williams-Garcia's enthusiastic reading.
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There, deposited into her mother's clutches, Little Edie snubs him on the platform, failing to say goodbye as he stands there pleading as much as his granitelike propriety will allow.
Slate Magazine 2009
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