How to Use natural resource in a Sentence

natural resource

noun

• The change is part of an effort to preserve this unique natural resource as tourism in the area has boomed.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• The country, rich in natural resources, has been a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• The natural resource was relatively rare, so by about 2,500 B.C., the Egyptians found a way to make more of the same hue at home.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
• We were blessed by not having natural resources; we were forced to look elsewhere to take tourism and trade to the next level.
  — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Greg Beard ranks among Wall Street's most successful natural resource investors of the past two decades.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
• He's also learned that the public wants the natural resources to be protected.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2020
• By the end of the decade, natural resources and mining represented $13.1 billion of the state’s gross domestic product and made up 1% of the state’s jobs.
  — The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• Renewal of our natural resources, the great gift nature gave our area.
  — Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Malaysia, China and Vietnam all claim rights to the natural resources in this part of the contested waterway.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• One of my great passions is to enlighten others on how to protect the most valuable natural resource of the planet: streams and rivers.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• Young people are the world's most precious natural resource.
  — Angela Dewan and Radina Gigova, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• Hawaii lawmakers have sought to institute fees for tourists to help fund protection for the state's natural resources, but the measure has yet to pass.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
• And losing the social license will have dire consequences, as natural resource companies, such as Shell and BP, have learned in the past.
  — François Candelon, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
• The program will address transparency in debt management and the natural resource sector, the IMF said.
  — Matthew Hill, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Increasingly, whales were seen not as prey but as a natural resource to be mined; whalers talked about migrating sperm whales as veins running through the ocean, like gold.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• The district figured out how to open areas meant for groups, such as swim ponds, natural resource programming, and play spaces.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• The eaglet's parents continued to visit the tree that once held their nest on Monday, the state natural resources department said.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• The two sides agreed payment would be in euros to reduce their use of U.S. dollars, the common currency in natural resource markets.
  — Joe McDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
• Awareness of the river as a natural resource began to grow in the 1980s when environmental groups put pressure on the county and the Army Corps of Engineers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Mining companies had long had their eyes on Big Mountain, which was rich with natural resources.
  — Serena Lin, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Many of the wildlife and natural resource agencies in the affected areas are working to figure out the cause, according to a Kentucky Fish and Wildlife release.
  — Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2021
• The area remains rich in natural resources, including tin, which is crucial for the making of electronics.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 June 2023
• Elkins-Tanton hopes that this mission could help humans obtain resources from space that could prolong the longevity and health of Earth’s natural resources.
  — Sabrina Malhi, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• The first step, however, is to raise awareness around the world of this precious natural resource and the consequences of continuing to exploit it.
  — Julie Loisel, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• Wild rainbows, on the other hand, are an important natural resource throughout the Boise and Payette river systems.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Barboza-Gubo’s jungle is a sacred place, seen not as a natural resource, but as a generative source.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Now Indonesia is trying to attract more Chinese funding to process its natural resources and build cars at home.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
• But today, access to modern medicine does more to determine height than do natural resources.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Trump has made clear his intentions to overhaul the Department of the Interior, which protects the nation’s natural resources, including hundreds of millions of acres of land.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024
• Florence, its Tuscan archrival, had a river and better natural resources, and won a crucial military victory in 1269.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024