rockier; rockiest
1
: abounding in or consisting of rocks
2
: difficult to impress or affect : insensitive
3
: firmly held : steadfast
rockier; rockiest
Examples of rocky in a Sentence
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Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Kids laying on foam mattresses, stacked on the rocky ground.
—Matt Ozug, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
His relationship with his girlfriend Haley (Francesca Reale) is rocky — a situation made intrinsically harder by Rudy’s synesthesia.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
Although mostly rocky and sometimes with rough conditions, the small beach has a dock for swimmers or snorkelers to launch themselves into the bright turquoise sea.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Lake Michigan's western and northern beaches are rocky, while its southern and eastern beaches offer some of the largest lake dunes in the world due to prevailing winds from the west.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2024
For this reason, smallmouths are more likely to be found roaming about on fairly smooth or rocky bottoms or hunting suspended up in the water.
—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
Unlike the gas giants that often dominate discussions of exoplanetary systems, TRAPPIST-1's planets are rocky, bearing a closer resemblance to our home planet.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Likewise, oxygen was considered a biosignature gas until the 2010s, when researchers including Victoria Meadows at the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory began to find ways that rocky planets could accumulate oxygen without a biosphere.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Kids laying on foam mattresses, stacked on the rocky ground.
—Matt Ozug, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
His relationship with his girlfriend Haley (Francesca Reale) is rocky — a situation made intrinsically harder by Rudy’s synesthesia.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
Although mostly rocky and sometimes with rough conditions, the small beach has a dock for swimmers or snorkelers to launch themselves into the bright turquoise sea.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Lake Michigan's western and northern beaches are rocky, while its southern and eastern beaches offer some of the largest lake dunes in the world due to prevailing winds from the west.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2024
For this reason, smallmouths are more likely to be found roaming about on fairly smooth or rocky bottoms or hunting suspended up in the water.
—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
Unlike the gas giants that often dominate discussions of exoplanetary systems, TRAPPIST-1's planets are rocky, bearing a closer resemblance to our home planet.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Rocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocky. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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