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Example sentences for "molten"

Lexicographically close words:
mollys; molt; molta; molte; molted; molti; molting; molto; molts; moly
  1. Still continuing his march, he came upon an unbounded ocean of sand, which, in the glaring sunshine, glittered like a sea of molten gold.

  2. But in due time summit after summit shot rapidly into the brave red light, and at last the whole chain shone in huge waves of molten silver, though a hazy gloom still clothed the inferior ranges.

  3. On this Snorri with great dignity rose up, saying, as he pointed to the riven rocks and deep fissures around them, 'At what then were the gods wroth when this lava was molten and overran the whole district upon which we now stand?

  4. The molten ore ran into this rapidly and soon filled it, forming a rough block of iron a foot thick, a foot wide, and eighteen inches long.

  5. It varied in height from three feet to twenty, until it had become a thick pillar of molten glass, with branching capitals that broke into flakes of sea-foam spinning into the drift.

  6. But this was not all, for at a considerable distance from the molten mass, which had the sun for its core, there was a wide ring apparently of fire.

  7. The whole Godhead, so to speak, is smelted down to make that rushing river of molten love which flows from the Cross of Christ into the hearts of men.

  8. Our wishes are the mould into which the molten metal from the great furnace of His love will run.

  9. Below, were spread out immense fields, or rather oceans, of granite that seemed once to have been a molten sea, whose waves were suddenly congealed.

  10. Out of these craters issued blue flames and molten brimstone.

  11. Out of the leaping furnace flame A mass of molten silver came; Then, beaten into pieces three, Went forth to meet its destiny.

  12. A man's roused passions are always terrible; but there is something ten times more awful in fury that is altogether calm--molten down as it were to a white heat.

  13. Within this pit the surface of the molten lava was about eighty feet below us.

  14. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  15. The lava that has solidified into hard rock with us is yet molten and plastic with you.

  16. You are flexible and plastic as yet, like the iron running out of the blast furnace in a molten stream, which in half an hour's time will be a rigid bar that no man can bend.

  17. The icy mood passed away, and such a glow of red anger rushed through Alec's veins, that he felt as if the hot blast from molten metal were playing upon his face.

  18. The winter with its frost and bitter winds brought her a home at Howglen; the summer, whose airs were molten kisses, took it away, and gave her the face of nature instead of the face of a human mother.

  19. The stars overhead, half-molten away in the ghostly light that would not go, were yet busy at their night-work, ministering to the dark sides of the other worlds.

  20. Many of the lunar craters are without doubt volcanic in origin, others seem to be ruins of molten lakes.

  21. The late Professor Langley at a steel works in Pennsylvania once compared direct sunlight with the dazzling stream of molten metal from a Bessemer converter; but bright as it was, sunlight was found to be five thousand times brighter.

  22. This is a remnant of the vast mass of volcanic rock that in long ago prehistoric times was poured out in molten sheets over the region, and that formed the range we shall shortly see at the north end of the Lake--the Mount Pluto range.

  23. Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

  24. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

  25. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

  26. Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  27. Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

  28. And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image.

  29. Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

  30. Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

  31. His very pain seemed to cool him, from the molten lover, to the bar of steel.

  32. His love--it just poured over me like molten gold.

  33. That water in the form of occluded gas plays the chief part in forcing the lava column up a volcanic chimney, and in the violent explosions that accompany the rise of the molten material, is generally admitted.

  34. Volcanoes, which are openings that constantly, or intermittently, give out hot vapours and molten lava from reservoirs beneath the crust.

  35. They have been claimed by some writers to be part of the original or primitive surface of our globe that first consolidated on the molten nucleus.

  36. Sometimes the walls have separated and molten rock has risen from below and solidified between them as a dike.

  37. This important series brings before us the relations of the molten magma within the earth to the overlying crust and to the outer surface.

  38. They have arisen sometimes from tension, such as that caused by contraction from the drying and consolidation of an aqueous sediment or from the cooling of a molten mass; sometimes from torsion during movements of the crust.

  39. According to some investigators, it should be regarded as in large measure of meteoric origin, derived from the descent of rain into the earth, and its absorption by the molten magma in the interior.

  40. At first the molten rock glows with a white light, which rapidly reddens, and disappears under the rugged brown and black crust that forms on the surface.

  41. Paralipomenon Chapter 4 The altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve oxen, the ten loaves, the candlesticks and other vessels and ornaments of the temple.

  42. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

  43. They were doomed to a rude awakening; to discover in the hour of defeat and surrender that the molten idol was a delusion, that the work of their hands was an embodied lie, void of life, powerless to save.

  44. He began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the carven images, and the molten images.

  45. Sullen and windless rain began again outside, and fell hissing and spitting like molten lead into the harbor water, yet somehow to her it was a baptism and a washing of the soul.

  46. The sky was already lit with the fires of the west sun, and the surface of the bay, still alive with little waves, was turning molten under the reflection.

  47. The sharp edges of a "shoe" of sycee are caused by the mould containing the molten silver being gently shaken until the metal has set, with a view to secure uniform fineness throughout the lump.

  48. The pain was excruciating as the molten metal ran down his throat into his vitals; but since in life he had never been able to get enough of the dross, it was determined he should feel no lack of it then.

  49. Nor did they give off smell or smoke, or in that great, cold place, any heat which could be noticed, only an intense white light like that of molten iron, and a sharp hissing noise as of a million angry snakes.

  50. Aye, she even went down the length of the room and, throwing back her veil, bent over them, as it seemed a woman of molten steel in whose body the bones were visible, and examined the mass that was supported by the hanging cradle.

  51. Moreover, there, when the Mountain labours, run red streams of molten rock, and now and again hot ashes fall that slay the traveller.

  52. When we entered two priests were at work there: one of them stirring a cauldron with an iron rod and the other receiving its molten contents into a mould of clay.

  53. The place was a desert streaked with veins of rock that once had been molten lava.

  54. Thus some, who consider them as the first-formed crust of a previously molten globe, regard their apparent stratification as a kind of concentric parallel structure, developed in the progressive cooling of the mass from without.

  55. The moonlight seems to drip down the boles of the monarchs of the wood like molten silver, to lie here and there upon the underbrush around their feet.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "molten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deliquescent; fused; liquid; melted


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    molten calf; molten image; molten lava; molten metal; molten rock; molten state