How to Use mine in a Sentence

mine

1 of 2 noun

• The soldiers were careful to disarm any mines they found in their path.
• My father is a baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game.
• At one point an explosion and flames to the side of the road, an IED or mine.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• A lot of his people, and mine as well, came from or made the living on the sea.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• The mine was deserted, and the miners were gone, for now.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Most of the inhabitants worked for the mine in search of iron ore.
  — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 23 May 2023
• What was mine was always mine, even if that wasn’t much.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
• But after working in a place that snatches souls… mine is in tact and of the light.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
• The mine dried out, and the miners and their families dispersed.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• The mine was in Yunnan Province, 1,200 miles southwest of Wuhan.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• In my case, mine was also telling me where I was headed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• One of the mines there, Shinkolobwe, was rich with uranium.
  — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• Nonstick pots and pans that stuck to everything and looked like the inside of a coal mine?
  — Alex Milmeyster, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Bear in mind my grandfather was blown up by the Nazis at sea as a teenager, then spent 40 years in the coal mines.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The most recent country to join the movement was Panama, where the new law was used to shut down one of the largest copper mines in the world.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Rumors spread, most in his favor, and the narrative was no longer mine.
  — Hannah V. Sawyerr, Essence, 2 Aug. 2023
• That’s largely due to the preservative properties of salt, which is abundant in the mine.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• The viewer floats over slums, a strip mine, an artisanal sulfur mine.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Agnieszka’s reason for making her movie was the same as mine.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
• The impressive find is the fourth diamond recovered from the mine’s South Lobe since 2015.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
• Fesenko pointed to a hole where one of the animals had triggered a mine.
  — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Her grandparents came for the mines, which supported livelihoods in town until the last one closed in 1991.
  — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Kweli had quickly forgotten the brief blowups, both mine and Matilda’s.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• When Natalia decided to work in the mine, her 19-year-old son had already worked in a neighbouring mine for a year.
  — Reuters, Fortune Europe, 22 Nov. 2023
• Shipping tends to be a lot more difficult and expensive when the seas are teeming with mines.
  — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• The mine’s enormous underground church, carved in the early 20th century, is still used for Mass.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
• But the steel mills and coal mines failed to roar back to their glory days, and the internal-combustion engine is unlikely to as well.
  — Anjali Huynh, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Still more works of art had been hidden in monasteries, castles, caves and salt mines to protect them from Nazi theft or wartime bombs.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• At least one ship was damaged by a floating mine of unknown origin off the coast of Romania late last year.
  — Tim Lister and Victoria Butenko, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• The film unveils the struggle of refugees navigating this treacherous terrain, where mines from the Balkan War lurk in the soil and political borders define lives.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024

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mine

2 of 2 verb

• Local people were hired to mine the gold.
• The enemy had mined the harbor.
• The area was soon filled with prospectors who were mining for gold.
• Prospectors mined the region for diamonds.
• As many teams brushed away games and moved on to the next, Shildt mined gold from the past.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• The footage could be mined by both Dokumalia and the scientists.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• Only a comedic mind like John Mulaney’s could mine gold from one of the lowest points of his life.
  — William Earl, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
• In addition to exploring the moon, NASA hopes to mine the area by 2032.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
• The trouble won’t come when the last of Earth’s phosphorus-​rich rock reserves have been mined, milled and spilled into our waters.
  — Dan Egan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• The new High Street will not be a carbon copy of the old, but the old restaurant will be mined for inspiration.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
• Both the 23andMe and the GSK team felt like there was so much in there, any one group can’t possibly mine everything.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• Share [Findings] Sugar ants will mine dried urine from sand.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• Three-quarters of the world’s boron reserves are in Turkey, while the rest is mined from the town of Boron, California.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
• In late May, Aleksandr was sent on a mission to mine a riverbank.
  — Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The diamond is believed to have been mined in India in the 13th century.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
• But who was mining the lapis lazuli in Afghanistan and under what conditions?
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Like the stone, Peridot is sleek and captivating with its modern design, and nods to Vietnam, the place where the gem is mined.
  — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the film, Richie shares with Patrick how difficult things were with his father, something that would have been mined more in a full season.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 20 June 2023
• Renowned as the opal capital of the world, Australia's national gemstone has been mined here for more than 100 years.
  — Keira Alexander, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2023
• Some flows to offshore deposits just past the surf zone, which can be mined for replenishment projects.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
• Wakely first struck a deal with Universal Music Group in 2018 to mine its library for projects.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• Plans were drawn up to mine the Eiffel Tower with explosives.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Podcast hosts talk about it; the details get mined for social media content.
  — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Other people’s drama is the foundation of the internet, and it could be mined to a greater extent on late night, frankly.
  — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
• Credit that to Bradley, who has mined the type of mental toughness to finally match the physical kind.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Russians mined the area before leaving, according to Kyiv.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
• Using them again helps build more circular economies and reduces the demand for mining them.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• While writing the album, the quartet mined memories of grief and trauma, searching for catharsis.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 5 Apr. 2024
• In Música, the artist mines his personal life and singular experience of the world to craft a charming coming-of-age story.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024