Graphite is that semi-metallic coal-like form of carbon used in pencils, lubricants, arc lamps and carbon fiber. ❋ ArtScene (2010)
Flesh-bare figures shambling in the dark with blazing, coal-like eyes. ❋ P. J. Bracegirdle (2010)
The U.S. has the largest known reserves of the coal-like rock, 80% of which lie beneath federal lands. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The most common source of biomass energy is from the burning of wood, but energy can also be generated by burning animal manure (dung), herbaceous plant material (non-wood), peat (partially decomposed plant and animal tissues), or converted biomass such as charcoal (wood that has been partially burned to produce a coal-like substance). ❋ Unknown (2008)
York time, but, when I gazed out the plane window, the sky was full of coal-like clouds. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Aristotle says that those substances which have more of earth than fire in them are called coal-like substances. ❋ Unknown (1923)
Picture to yourself, Margaret, a little woman with hair and eyes of almost coal-like blackness, and a little sallow, eager face, and you have the once great Madame Martelli to the life. ❋ Geraldine Mockler (1900)
As in an ordinary Roman cemetery, an abundance of utensils for the worship or commemoration of the departed was disposed around -- incense, lights, flowers, their flame or their freshness being relieved to the utmost by contrast with the coal-like blackness of the soil itself, a volcanic sandstone, cinder of burnt-out fires. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
Their skins were black, though not of the inky, coal-like color of the pure-blooded African negro. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)
They can still see it on the ledge; for although the light is feeble, with some dust floating about, through this its glaring eyeballs, as twin stars through a thin stratum of cloud, gleam coal-like and clear. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The process liquefies coal deep underground before burning it for energy - the effect being coal-like reliability and affordability with much lower emissions. ❋ JOSH WINGROVE (2011)
The facility also will burn petroleum coke, a coal-like oil refinery byproduct. ❋ Unknown (2011)
However, if you're hoping that Betty White mania has faded completely-and, seriously, what kind of gnarled, coal-like heart have you got, anyway?! ❋ Unknown (2010)
