How to Use shale in a Sentence

shale

noun

• This is not to say that the current shale boom was the result of high prices in the 2000s.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The doctor’s horse, Puffer, slipped on the shale and slid about 10 feet down the mountain.
  — Ed Wiseman, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2023
• The brown sand stretches hard and smooth to the rock-shale shelf marking the high-tide line.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• That push has stunted growth in all but one of the oil fields that fueled the shale boom.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• That makes shale a very attractive bet in the post-Covid world.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• But worse than the discomfort was the way that the shale sucked away my body’s vital heat.
  — Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
• Barb trips on some loose shale and tumbles into the canyon.
  — Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• My brown daughter by the slate-gray sea puts broken shells and bits of shale in stacks.
  — Kelly Scott Franklin, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• By 2019, the shale boom had made the U.S. not just the world's top consumer of oil, but the world's largest producer, as well.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
• The deal involves oil assets in the northern part of the Eagle Ford shale basin in South Texas.
  — Benoît Morenne, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• And most of the increase has occurred since 2005, when shale-gas came onstream.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Under this technique, drillers bore through thousands of feet of earth to reach the shale.
  — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Riverstone Holdings LLC rode the shale boom to big profits.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
• That means shale could once again come to the rescue if high oil prices become an issue.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• But Somers was surprised at how easily the shale gave way.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the bigger problem for the shale industry is the lack of new wells being drilled.
  — Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
• Above that aquifer and a layer of shale lies an upper aquifer in the Hopi mesas called the Toreva Sandstone Aquifer.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Few of the shale boom’s sideshows have flamed out quite like Wisconsin’s Northern White sand.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• The shale boom transformed the U.S. from a net importer to a net exporter of petroleum and gas.
  — Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• Frackers struggled to turn a profit amid the shale boom’s drilling frenzy.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
• That would be a win-win for shale and American consumers.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Each cell starts as a hole in the ground lined with a clay-like substance made from shale and a sturdy plastic liner.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
• The path was simply a horizontal shelf of the shale and limestone bedrock, maybe eight feet wide.
  — Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
• The shale wells will return someday, when another boom roars through the oil patch.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
• Our region made the misstep of putting too many eggs in the shale and the petrochemical basket.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
• Like the shale boom, the coming supply surge is a sudden change in dynamics.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2019
• This shift reflects the rise of shale, which made the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas in 2012.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• Two of the biggest U.S. oil companies are expanding in the shale patch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Given the nation’s fiscal needs, even a simple step like allowing fracking for natural gas in the extension of the Eagle Ford shale could reduce the country’s $5-10 billion gas import bill.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024