Crossword-Solution: ASBESTOS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asbestos | n. | A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with ASBESTOS (5)
Mining has declined in importance in recent years; high-grade iron ore deposits were depleted in 1978, and health concerns cut world demand for asbestos.
Important cases of this include {asbestos longjohns} and {asbestos cork award}, but it is used more generally.
What I cannot help wishing is, that Adam and EVE had been postponed, and Martin Luther and Joan of Arc put in their place—that splendid pair equipped with temperaments not made of butter, but of asbestos.
The incombustible pieces of dress which he uses for the body, arms, and legs, are formed out of strong cloth, which has been steeped in a solution of alum, while those for the head, hands, and feet, are made of cloth of asbestos or amianthus.
Mining has declined in importance in recent years; high-grade iron ore deposits were depleted by 1978, and health concerns cut world demand for asbestos.
Quotes with ASBESTOS (3)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).