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The last of the brown coal exited that pit in 1997.—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024 Hazelwood was erected to burn brown coal from an adjacent open-pit mine.—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024 The five chunks of brown coal, each no bigger than a matchbox, add further evidence of the port’s antiquity.—J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024 The regional power supplier, RWE, had already bought the land from farmers to expand its mining for brown coal, which the protesters pointed out is an especially polluting fuel.—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for brown coal
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