“Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have ⟳ wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”

“This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have ⟳ cut ⟳ through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name ⟳ Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.”

“The ship crashed on the rocks.”

“This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like ⟳ Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostly rocks that can reach ⟳ several stories high.”

“Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.”

“Look ⟳ at the size of that rock on her finger!”

“I call ⟳ all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops”

“Here she is, a billionaire’s wife, yet gripped by constant social anxiety, forever agonising that she’d worn her best rocks to an event that actually called for “patio jewellery” (necklaces $1m or under).”

“In an Instagram post ⟳ on Monday, Georgina Rodríguez, the longtime girlfriend of the soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, shared a photo of a gigantic rock on her ring ⟳ finger.”

“Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like ⟳ a pearl.”

“And I say ⟳ also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build ⟳ my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

“1991, Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman, Soapdish, Paramount Pictures, Celeste Talbert: She is my rock, my right hand.”

“I'll have ⟳ a whisky on the rocks, please ⟳.”

“While we're in Brighton, let's get ⟳ a stick ⟳ of rock!”

“With my little stick ⟳ of Blackpool rock/Along the promenade I stroll.”

“Most Kenyans blithely assumed that if the British high commissioner said something, it represented British policy, a thought-through position running from one end ⟳ of government to the other, like ⟳ the lettering in a stick ⟳ of Brighton rock.”

“I ain't guilty, ‘cause even though I sell ⟳ rocks / It feels good puttin' money in your mailbox”

“When I necked five-quid bottles of vodka, I did not read ⟳ the label ⟳. When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test ⟳.”

“We ordered rock and chips to take ⟳ away.”

“Yo homie, pass ⟳ the rock!”

“It [the original Space Jam limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan’s swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete ⟳ for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put ⟳ the rock through the net.”

“Now, you should never make ⟳ the last ⟳ out of an inning at third, and when a player does it, everyone knows he pulled a rock.”

“It was easily possible to double ⟳ the cost ⟳ of a CB rig just by adding all of the "rocks" necessary to do the job.”

“Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread / By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, / That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid.”

“By order ⟳ of the General Court in 1642, the "prudentiall" men of each town were instructed "to take ⟳ care of such [children] as are sett to keep ⟳ cattle be set ⟳ to some other employment withal, as spinning upon the rock, knitting, weaving tape, etc., and that boys and girls be not suffered to converse together so as may occasion any wanton, dishonest or immodest behavior.”

“A prepared end ⟳ of yarn being fixed into the notch, the spinster, by a smart rolling motion of the spindle with the right hand against the right leg, threw it out from her, spinning in the air, while, with the left hand, she drew from the rock an additional supply ⟳ of fibre which was formed into a uniform and equal strand with the right.”

“It is true that in Ireland, even in recent years, the flax, before being placed on the rock or distaff, was tangled into a mass, or, as Cormmelin expresses it, “drawn out in a flat cake.””

“Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March ⟳ 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look ⟳ she has said is more than a style preference.”

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