Strip Mined

While King sought "to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation," besieged strip-mined residents in Knott County in eastern Kentucky organized their own sit-ins and protests to keep unchecked strip-miners from destroying their historic homelands and hillsides and watersheds. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

The material isn't overtly absurdist, offensive or angry, and you've heard many of the subjects before: commercial air travel, film and television, sports, binge drinking -- tropes long ago strip-mined by lesser comics. ❋ Steven Shehori (2011)

If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)

Here, too, financial institutions have strip-mined a vulnerable population. ❋ Daniel De Vise (2011)

Unfinished, never will be finished, but I strip-mined some of the ideas for my book Poison Sleep. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every reader can simply go to this website and enter his or her zip code and see their connection to coal-fired electricity supplied by coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal or other strip-mining operations. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

We've been living in a political desert here for a long time, and irony is only relevant if it can be strip-mined. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Millions of acres of forests and farmlands have been strip-mined into oblivion; pioneering communities have been plundered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The asthma and cancers in the families under the strip-mined mountains, they have the moaning, distorted cry of the earth in their bodies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A can starts its life as a reddish ore called bauxite, which gets strip-mined in Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, and a few other tropical spots.78 The mining displaces native people and animals and cuts down legions of those brave soldiers in the war against global warming—the trees. ❋ Annie Leonard (2010)

The levels of impoverishment and economic ruin in strip-mined coalfields areas rival those prior to the War on Poverty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After my family's 150-year-old homestead was strip-mined into oblivion, in one of the most diverse forests and historic communities in the American heartland, I set out to examine the overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation's dirty energy policy over the past two centuries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mitchell wanted them instead to have the option of simply purchasing lower-sulfur coal strip-mined from Wyoming in place of West Virginia deep-mined coal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Quit] Strip Mining, you're [taking] all of [the cheese]! ❋ BDItillIdie (2010)

"[Damn it]! My [roommate] strip-mined the [Lucky Charms] again!. I'm gonna kill him." ❋ Nseaturtle (2013)

Let's go driving in [the old] strip mine, with [your dad's] [Porsche Cayenne]. ❋ Hazletard-in-Chief (2011)

"[get it]?! get it?!" "[oh yeah]...you can stop comic strip-mining that [joke]" ❋ Blatherskyte (2013)

Although [rugged] and dangerous nothing compares to the [raw] feeling of [strip mining] a girl. ❋ Stealth Penguin (2011)

Ex1: Ken was [being an ass] hole and strip mined the pizza. Ex2: Guy1: Dude, did you [strip mine] my pizza? Ken: What you gonna dough about it? Reporter: Ken was killed today at a local [collage]. ❋ Hellathere (2015)