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Six example sentences with bedrock, each labelled with its topic.
Engineers drilled through forty meters of clay before the piles reached bedrock firm enough to carry the tower.
Architecture
Where the topsoil has washed away, bedrock shows through the hillside in gray slabs nothing will grow on.
Environment
The river has cut down to bedrock here, and you can walk across dry ledges the flood carved smooth.
Travel
Geologists date the bedrock beneath the valley to two billion years, older than any fossil found above it.
Science
The boring machine chews through bedrock at ten meters a day, its cutters replaced by crews working from inside.
Technology
Manhattan's early towers rose where bedrock lay close to the surface, which is why midtown and downtown grew tall first.
History
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