quarry
Example Sentences
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After analyzing the model, the team identified 30 distinct quarrying areas, each showing unique carving approaches.
From Science Daily
Not surprisingly, a perfect Sunday for Wareheim involves shopping for plants and perusing rock yards and quarries, though he won’t divulge exactly where.
From Los Angeles Times
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the deadly blast happened in a building dedicated to making “boosters” – charges used for mining, construction and quarrying.
Once he figures out a way to navigate its deadly forests and fields, there’s a deadlier obstacle between him and his quarry: a bioweapons retrieval team deployed by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
From Salon
The android knows how to navigate the planet’s threats—exploding spike plants, acid-spitting eels, literal razor grass—so Dek reluctantly teams up with her to find his quarry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
