How to Use petroglyph in a Sentence

petroglyph

noun
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  • Among the walls can be found a piece of stone known as a petroglyph.
    — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
  • One of the stones features what appears to be a petroglyph of a mastodon.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And while some of the meaning has been lost to time, certain petroglyphs can still be read.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The sea of sandstone is speckled with 2,000-year-old petroglyphs.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • More than a decade ago, Zorro Ranch placed a vintage caboose on the trust land near a petroglyph site.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Pictographs and petroglyphs show that humans have lived here for some 8,000 years.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The cave walls feature petroglyphs, which are carved into the rock, Davis told the hikers, his words echoing off the cavernous walls.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Although the ghost town left me unimpressed, the highlight of the trip was another petroglyph site near 21 Goats.
    — James Card, New York Times, 25 July 2017
  • Fjeld found his first petroglyph in 2016, and he’s been tracking down carvings in his free time ever since.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The Zipper Glyph is the largest petroglyph at the Parowan Gap and has been interpreted in different ways.
    — Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • But what draws people to Mouse’s Tank today are the ancient petroglyphs that have been etched into the canyon’s sandstone walls.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Two more petroglyph tiles are cast rogue from the rest, set into the floor of a lanai, beneath a round glass table where the Charlots often relaxed.
    — Matthew Dekneef Mariko Reed, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The mound also has ancient petroglyphs and pictographs scrawled into its tan rock base.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Because the color of the carvings, or petroglyphs, are uniform and spaced, the researchers believe the piece of art was planned before the carving began.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The park is also a canvas for petroglyphs, which are visible along the Petroglyph Point Trail.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Capitol Reef is great for watching the sunset and spotting petroglyphs.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But dozens of visitors each day climb down long ladders to inspect the cliff dwellings and numerous petroglyphs.
    — Frank O. Sotomayor, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Track Rock Gap is far from the only petroglyph site targeted by vandals in recent years.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The petroglyphs were created by people who lived in what is now Michigan centuries ago.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The petroglyphs were found in the Vredefort impact structure, a 186-mile wide crater in South Africa that was formed by an asteroid strike around 2 billion years ago.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2019
  • Not long before the Birthing Rock was vandalized, a climber fixed a series of bolts into a large petroglyph panel, also just outside of Moab.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2021
  • Beyond eruptions and lava fields, the park is also home to more than 155 miles of trails, native flora and fauna, as well as sacred petroglyphs.
    — Kait Hanson, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024
  • These eight sites have ancient petroglyphs in locations that might surprise you.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
  • Another figure that predominates in the Bronze Age engravings is the bull, which like the sun-god forms, can be seen at other petroglyph sites in the region.
    — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Etched into many of the surfaces are petroglyphs by the Fremont people, who drew human figures, wildlife and abstract designs.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 10 May 2024
  • That drawing that strongly resembles the Piedra del Sol petroglyph.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • An old petroglyph was found during a survey in Sarkubeh Village in Iran, a site known for its abundant prehistoric rock carvings.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Walker cleaned it and discovered a petroglyph carved by an ancient ancestor — the first ever found there.
    — Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Along the way, travelers pass elaborate dwellings carved into the cliffs, underground kivas, and petroglyphs that were etched into the rock thousands of years ago.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
  • The review is rekindling a fierce debate about oversight of lands marked by ancient petroglyphs and towering mountain spires.
    — Morgan Lee, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017

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