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Recent Examples of quarry
Noun
There's a coquina quarry where laborers mined stones to build the majestic Castillo de San Marcos and other historic structures downtown.—Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025 Engine 68 recently got a call to a rock quarry to save a man who became trapped in machinery during an overnight shift.—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
Mix grains of cobalt, mined in Labrador, with potash, quarried in Saskatchewan, and whisks of beaver tail, all of it steeped over sharp, jagged Yukon ice.—Scott Simon, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025 The residence sports locally quarried sandstone, wood flooring, arched doorways, and intricate iron railings.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quarry
Often, people who fall prey to scams don’t want to admit they could have been fooled — but that shame can in turn keep others in the dark.
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Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 May 2025
Some quarterbacks have stronger arms, some have quicker releases, some can run, and some can improvise amidst the dangers of a defense that sees the quarterback as its prey.
Which is why Pete Carroll will likely ask his new right-hand man in Vegas to mine the infinite depths of the internet to find the video of that three-legged dog going full speed.
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Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
Tell me about mining all of those things that make up the gay millennial experience.
Future Boy delves into a specific time in Fox’s storied career: namely the year 1985, when the actor was steadily rising to fame as Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
7 May 2025
But Sinners also delves into the loss of spirituality among many Black Americans.
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