How to Use quarrying in a Sentence

quarrying

noun

• The temple is unique in that over-quarrying of sandstone led to the use of laterite for the roofed corridors.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The temple is unique in that over-quarrying of sandstone led to the use of laterite for the roofed corridors.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Within a few weeks, Christian had wired money to the bank and brought in a wooden model of the monument, and the quarrying and construction had begun.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2013
• Gradually, the forest was stripped of its greenery, thanks to rampant tree felling and stone quarrying.
  — Pragati Prava, Quartz India, 26 Jan. 2020
• In Jerusalem, millennia of quarrying and destruction have left behind tons of small chips.
  — Andrew Lawler, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
• Obviously, there is no free lunch, and the problem here is quarrying, crushing, and transporting all that basalt.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2018
• Michelangelo was a native of the quarrying world, fluent in its ways, but the sculptor who chose the block, Agostino di Duccio, was largely ignorant of them.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2016
• Over 28% of the county’s workforce is employed in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector, compared to 0.5% of the national workforce.
  — Samuel Stebbins, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• Granite quarrying is a top local industry, employing about 2,000 in the area, Kubas said.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2022
• Early in the Roman period, the region was the site of gravel quarrying, possibly used for the construction of Akeman Street, per the statement.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
• That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other jobs.
  — Jim Drinkard, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• The Statistics Canada report said the mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas-extraction sector was the biggest driver of May’s gain in output.
  — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 31 July 2018
• Pruitt’s staff pointed to job gains across the overall mining sector — which includes oil and natural gas drilling, metal ore mining and stone quarrying.
  — Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
• The mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector was the biggest driver of February’s output gain.
  — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• West Woods is a six square kilometer (four square mile) plateau, partially wooded and dotted with large sarsen boulders and pits from millennia of quarrying.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020
• Places with good stone for quarrying used the material for building and decoration.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Activity in the mining, quarrying, and oil- and gas-extraction sector fell 2.7% in January, its largest decline in 20 months.
  — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
• West Virginia’s mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry has always been a strong contributor to the state’s overall GDP.
  — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other unrelated jobs.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• Then there's the emerging hazard of anthropogenic earthquakes triggered by resource extraction such as mining and quarrying.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• A far bigger risk is large-scale limestone quarrying by companies producing cement.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• Partially offsetting those gains was a 1.4% decline in the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector and a 0.9% contraction in the transportation and warehousing sector.
  — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• The local council had commissioned excavations ahead of a major quarrying project.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
• First, the researchers worked out its efficiency of CO2 capture—about 0.3 tons captured per gigajoule of electricity input, including the losses from quarrying and crushing rock.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 June 2018
• The Ministry of Mines and Energy, which is responsible for granting and regulating concessions for limestone quarrying, declined to comment.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• After talking specifically about coal mining, Trump cites a figure for all mining jobs – including gas, oil, metal ores, coal and nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying.
  — USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
• The vehicle in question is a load carrier, designed for use in quarrying and mining, and capable of working in convoy with other autonomous vehicles to pick up and transport material around a pre-programmed route.
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• In Canada, the manufacturing and extractives industries — mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction — performed handsomely in 2020.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Much of the region’s economy withered after the Civil War, with changes in transportation, refrigeration, and construction technologies triggering a collapse in granite quarrying, shipbuilding, logging, fishing, and ice-harvesting.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Extractive industries—including mining, quarrying, oil, and gas—are dominant.
  — Eli Cahan, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024