Examples of coalfield in a Sentence
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Roughly one in five miners in the Central Appalachia coalfields of West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia now have black lung disease, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Kris Maher, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
Blasting occurs at the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad, in the state of Jharkhand, a common technique that uses explosives to break up the ground.
—Time, 12 Jan. 2023
Bobby was born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky on December 7, 1931.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
To earn a living, many local residents collect and sell coal from the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad.
—Time, 12 Jan. 2023
Due to its geological features, the Geiseltal area — once a coalfield — contains thousands of fossils and can give researchers a better idea of what life looked like millions of years ago.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
The energy firm that owns the coalfield, DTEK Corp., also cited wartime restrictions on publishing details on strategic infrastructure.
—Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges.
—Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred.
—Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
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Kris Maher, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
Blasting occurs at the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad, in the state of Jharkhand, a common technique that uses explosives to break up the ground.
—Time, 12 Jan. 2023
Bobby was born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky on December 7, 1931.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
To earn a living, many local residents collect and sell coal from the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad.
—Time, 12 Jan. 2023
Due to its geological features, the Geiseltal area — once a coalfield — contains thousands of fossils and can give researchers a better idea of what life looked like millions of years ago.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
The energy firm that owns the coalfield, DTEK Corp., also cited wartime restrictions on publishing details on strategic infrastructure.
—Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges.
—Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred.
—Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
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First Known Use
1734, in the meaning defined above
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“Coalfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coalfield. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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