How to Use lava in a Sentence

lava

noun
Definition of lavanext
  • Most of the caves formed from the flow of ancient lava.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • The lava rocks helped to disperse the flames that dance 2 to 3-inches above them.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The Holei Sea Arch is made from lava flow from 550 years ago.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • The tide went out, and there was nothing but lava rocks.
    — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The lava eruptions reached 164 feet high and the length of the fissure was around 2 miles, the agency said.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 29 May 2024
  • Since then, the fountain heights (the bursts of lava) have decreased and now range from 13 to 30 feet high.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
  • At the end of November, an eruption sent a flow of lava down the side of the volcano.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Get ready to glow in this clever, DIY lava lamp costume.
    — Chloe Gorman, Country Living, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Next, use it to crack your box and find out whether lava or sand is inside.
    — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
  • All of the homes in the area were built on bedrock, and many have lava rock accents in their landscaping.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 18 June 2024
  • That's true, a lava rock could come flying at any point.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Kilauea's lava, though, is confined to a small pond near the top and not gushing down the side.
    — Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But there seemed a lava flow inside him that would not be easy to reckon with.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The lava was about 450 meters from the town, officials said.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • One of the most unique features of Adams is its long lava flows, some of which reached ~6 miles from Adams summit.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Local news footage showed lava and smoke pouring out of a fissure in the ground.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 July 2023
  • One of the places where sulfur lava flows seem to be more common is the Andes of northern Chile.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Hours later, a second fissure opened near the edge of town and lava crept toward the homes.
    — Marco Di Marco, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The mix is made with small Monterey pine bark, medium pumice rock, and small red lava rock.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, there are lots of hand-wavy ideas about lava tubes and regolith shielding.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The lava was tumbling slowly down the slope and was about 6 miles from the highway known as Saddle Road.
    — Gregory Bull and Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the structures even have tubes made entirely of lava.
    — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Many of Auckland’s lava tubes have been known for as long as people have lived in the region.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • It's all meant to emulate lava breaking free of the ground.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Queen's Bath Queen's Bath is a natural lava stone tide pool that is about the size of a large swimming pool.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The curtain cooled and rained down in a barrage of lava bombs and smaller rocks known as cinders.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Buildings collapse into the track of UD lava as the earth rumbles and moans.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
  • So for a brief period of time early in its history, the Moon was just lava with little or no solid rock.
    — Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Rilles are long, shallow gullies carved by flowing lava.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2024

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