derrick

Example Sentences

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In the 1920s, much of the Los Angeles Basin was covered with a forest of wooden oil derricks.

From Los Angeles Times

Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said that local power plants, oil wells and derricks are also an intense concern.

From New York Times

To move the Ramses sculptures, for instance, required master craftsmen from Italy’s Carrara marble quarries to slice the gigantic figures into huge blocks that could be lifted by derricks and placed on trucks or barges.

From Washington Post

The man, who declined to give his name, pointed toward the derricks.

From Los Angeles Times

And although derricks still dot local hillsides, most crude comes from foreign countries.

From Los Angeles Times