How to Use shale in a Sentence

shale

noun

• This is not to say that the current shale boom was the result of high prices in the 2000s.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The doctor’s horse, Puffer, slipped on the shale and slid about 10 feet down the mountain.
  — Ed Wiseman, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2023
• That push has stunted growth in all but one of the oil fields that fueled the shale boom.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• That makes shale a very attractive bet in the post-Covid world.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• Barb trips on some loose shale and tumbles into the canyon.
  — Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• My brown daughter by the slate-gray sea puts broken shells and bits of shale in stacks.
  — Kelly Scott Franklin, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The deal involves oil assets in the northern part of the Eagle Ford shale basin in South Texas.
  — Benoît Morenne, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• And most of the increase has occurred since 2005, when shale-gas came onstream.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Riverstone Holdings LLC rode the shale boom to big profits.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
• That means shale could once again come to the rescue if high oil prices become an issue.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• But Somers was surprised at how easily the shale gave way.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• The shale boom transformed the U.S. from a net importer to a net exporter of petroleum and gas.
  — Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• Frackers struggled to turn a profit amid the shale boom’s drilling frenzy.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
• That would be a win-win for shale and American consumers.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The path was simply a horizontal shelf of the shale and limestone bedrock, maybe eight feet wide.
  — Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
• Our region made the misstep of putting too many eggs in the shale and the petrochemical basket.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
• Now, as oil and gas prices surge again, private shale drilling and fracking are leading a rebound in oil and gas drilling.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Gray shale interspersed with lichen, near a steep rushing mountain stream, hid the birds well.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• At the time, drilling was pushing into the Utica shale formation.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
• Old coal and natural gas plants have lingered even as a wave of big new gas plants were built with the shale boom in the previous decade.
  — Naureen S. Malik, oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2022
• In the short run, ESG investors will look in horror on governments cozying up to shale and coal.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2022
• The camp looked like a moonscape with tents pitched between rocky ravines and glacier shale that can be slippery and dangerous.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Some of the best evidence is found in the layers of black shale — which form under anoxic conditions — that date to the time.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2021
• Of less concern in the Barnett shale are plays that have multi-layered payzones.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Private shale drilling and fracking has been a primary driver in the recent rise in U.S. oil and gas drilling.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• Ramping up shale production from that well can take years.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The last time natural-gas prices were so high was back before the shale-drilling boom flooded the domestic market with cheap gas and the U.S.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• Gas prices zigzagged through the 2000s until the shale fracking boom flooded the market with a new supply of natural gas.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Oct. 2021
• Both Big Oil and shale producers need export markets to thrive.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024