How to Use miner in a Sentence

miner

noun
  • They are exposed to high risk because miners don't have enough protection.
    ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Parton wrote this cautionary tale of a miner who leaves his wife and kids for the casinos of Reno.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Chafin’s side even employed airplanes to drop gas and homemade explosives on the miners.
    Katie Angell Britannica Editors Aug. 27, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • But when shovels become too expensive, the miners start forging their own.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • For years miners had fought for better pay, safer working conditions, and the right to organize.
    Katie Angell Britannica Editors Aug. 27, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Copper miners — Shares of miners fell alongside copper prices.
    Michelle Fox,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • During the American gold rush, the folks selling picks and shovels to the miners made a lot of money.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The White miners drove hundreds of other Chinese laborers out of the town.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Mingo county, where miners had been jailed during a bitter struggle over unionization.
    Katie Angell Britannica Editors Aug. 27, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the summer of 1921, thousands of armed coal miners set out across southern West Virginia.
    Katie Angell Britannica Editors Aug. 27, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • At the Iga-Barrière site, the search for gold takes miners beneath the earth through shafts that can extend dozens of meters (yards) underground.
    ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • My father was a coal miner and a talented musician who would later perform in several local bluegrass bands.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Observatory said at least 70 miners were killed or missing at the site, which stretches across a wide swath of fragile, sandy soil.
    ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Groff voices Kristoff, the endearing, odd ice miner who emerges as a surprising love interest for Anna in the first film.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The work is risky because miners typically don't have enough protection, often leading to deadly outcomes.
    ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Footage showed miners, mostly young men and women covered in mud, pulling out a body from the pit while dozens of other miners and workers were scattered around the expansive site, some shouting for help.
    ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Astronauts bring them on journeys to keep an eye on whether or not the water filtration systems are working, much the way miners used to take canaries down to the coal mines to check for poisonous gas leaks.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The story centers on an impoverished young miner living a muted existence in a remote town where emotional reticence is the norm among men.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Shares of trading platform Coinbase dropped more than 5%, while shares of crypto miner Riot Platforms slid 4%.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The four-year cycle theory is partly tied to the process of Bitcoin’s halving, which cuts rewards to miners that keep the blockchain that backs up Bitcoin running.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Another miner, Rick Ness experiences a health crisis this season.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • South Africa’s fourth-largest platinum group metals miner put itself up for auction after receiving an unsolicited approach from a local rival.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The copper rivets, still used across jean designs today, were initially added to prevent rips frequently experienced by miners and other laborers.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2026
  • Hamadou Abba, 50, said that his 32-year-old nephew, Doudou Marcel, was among the Cameroonian miners killed in the collapse.
    Jean Fernand Koena, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • When authorities destroy mining equipment in one area, miners often move elsewhere or resume operations after officials leave.
    ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Rosenblatt initiates Soluna Holdings as buy Rosenblatt said the bitcoin miner is well positioned.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Without adequate reinforcement, shifting ground can cause tunnels to collapse suddenly, burying miners within seconds.
    ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As the outbreak spreads and kills people faster than any other outbreak of the disease in history, a major source of concern for monitoring efforts is miners constantly on the move and in hard-to-reach, unsafe territories.
    ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The Kordofan Observatory monitoring group said that at least 70 miners were killed or missing at the site, which stretches about a half-mile across a wide swath of fragile, sandy soil.
    Yasir Abdallah, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Unlike the Brookside miners, whose strike was a relative success, the Hormel workers, who pursued their fight against management without the support of their parent union, were unsuccessful.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026

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