How to Use ore in a Sentence

ore

noun

• That’s all been paid for by the iron ore.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
• Mining the ore is the easy part.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
• Cast-iron skillets are used in a nod to the game’s use of ore.
  — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
• There are three main mines on the site now, named after the ores found there.
  — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
• The fleet returned with 1,225 tons of ore.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
• In a race to build the bomb, both sides wanted the Congolese ore.
  — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• The railcars were loaded with iron ore and spilled, South said.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• They harness energy from the sun, wind, rivers, atoms, and ores.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
• It is found in platinum ores but is one-tenth as abundant as the platinum in those ores.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2023
• Greenland is rich in iron ore, copper, zinc, graphite, tungsten and more.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
• The remains of the old stamp mill, where ore was crushed to extract gold, stick up on the hillside.
  — Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
• Black miners hauling earth and stone to sort piles of radioactive ore by hand.
  — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• That worldview is clashing with plans to open an iron ore mine outside Jokkmokk.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• China’s appetite for iron ore and coal has made Australia wealthy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Rare-earth ore deposits are available in many places, not just China.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• Malmberget is one of the world’s largest underground iron ore mines.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
• It’s also known for its wealth of natural resources, such as iron ore, coal, and gas.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• The microbes still need a small amount of sulfuric acid to kick-start the process of breaking down the ore.
  — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
• Rarer elements like gold or platinum see grams of metal per ton of ore.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Iron ore is part of the steel-making process and is not a hazardous material.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
• In them, Andrea's dress can be seen stained with the iron ore carried in the open-top rail wagons.
  — Yasmeen E. Awaja, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Blast furnaces are how a country makes new steel from iron ore instead of by melting scrap metal.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
• Even the idea that other resources, like ores, will not be scarce is overly optimistic.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
• Kiruna’s move is driven by ground subsidence linked to the vast iron ore deposits beneath the city.
  — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The Beckers shipped ore and limestone to Pittsburgh steel mills.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• The vessels are used to transport commodities like iron ore and soybeans.
  — Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• But Indonesia — and the world — is running out of saprolite ore.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• But Indonesia - and the world - is running out of saprolite ore.
  — Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023