Quarries

Word QUARRIES
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Definitions and meanings of "Quarries"

What do we mean by quarries?

A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

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The word "quarries" in example sentences

Besides working on the building, slaves worked in quarries extracting the stone for the Capitol. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Our quarries are the roads, our veins the dark alleys.” ❋ Tracy Lynn (2003)

The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9: 20; 2Ch 8: 7-9) and war prisoners made by David -- amounting to 153,600. ❋ Unknown (1871)

At the back of ponds, just inside the enclosure of woods, angles of corn-fields, old quarries, that is where to find grasses, or by the sea in the brackish marsh. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

One concern caused by the quarries is their environmental impact. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their main "quarries" are those houses that have fallen down or workplaces abandoned for many years by the apathetic State. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those occurring at or near the surface, and called "quarries," "placer deposits," ❋ Unknown (1915)

Sabarim, 1 (Jos., vii, 5; D.V.: "quarries"), on the descent from Hai towards the Ghôr. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3: 19), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

These note-books afterwards proved, like Richter's "quarries," the great storehouse from which he drew his illustrations. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

They will likely require monitoring and liners at existing disposal sites, as well as sites such as quarries and ravines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We know from scans of grave sites, and other sites with known soil disturbances, such as quarries, when this natural layering is massively disrupted or missing altogether." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I don’t know if you are aware that USGS has a database of mines and other activities such as quarries called Mindat. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We played catch, hiked to the Dorset marble quarries to gaze at the bats, camped on the slope of Glastonbury Peak, and fished for brook trout in the Battenkill. ❋ William Doreski (2011)

For the last nine months, the 1288 men and women of the Comet Deflection Team had worked twenty four hours a day cutting one ton blocks of ice from the quarries, feeding them into the mass drivers, and launching one into space every five seconds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead she has spent the last dozen years castigating the Indian state for all its sins and omissions: grandiose dams that displace the poor peasantry, mineral quarries that threaten to do likewise, nuclear weapons, the occupation of Kashmir. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She sadi: We rowed over to Carrara at dawn, climbed up to the marble quarries and rowed back at night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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