Did you not understand that I threw down the lifeless rock because it was an insult to the one god who requires no earthly home?
Elhant then asked what he should do with the crown, but the Oracle having answered three of his questions now stood like a lifeless rock.
This planet was a lifeless rock before Shannon had it terraformed.
Uhura nodded her head silently as children played around them on what had once been an airless, lifeless rock.
In the eerie silence, withering waves of heat rose from the lifeless rock all around.
Gone, the soot-stained snows and lifeless rocks of recent nightmare.
Even a lifeless rock or dust cloud deserved its unique existence without being destroyed in the name of progress.
For that to happen, she would have to escape this lifeless rock, which had become her prison.
We have a very unimaginative sun, and only lifeless rocks orbit it.
The satellite was fully automated, in orbit around a lifeless rock.