How to Use slag in a Sentence

slag

noun

• When the smelters smashed the furnace and the molten slag flowed out, what remained were precious lumps of copper.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• Dial worked in the steel mills of Birmingham, Alabama, and would sculpt the slag from the mills.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2023
• The beacon’s red light is the only touch of color in the gallery, but its glow amid the hillocks of slag denotes not life but danger.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• Arney said the small explosion was due to water mixing with the hot slag.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• In place of cement, CarbiCrete makes use of a waste product—the slag left over from steel production.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Except, that is, for what had brought him out here: some ten thousand tons of ancient copper slag.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• Strewn about were piles of black slag, fist-size chunks left over from extracting copper from ore in furnaces.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• During the cleaning, one of the slag accumulations came loose, sprayed the area with molten slag and killed five people.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2022
• That includes the collapse of a pile of alkali slag in east-central China in 2016 that washed away cars and fouled a major river.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Convinced that her friend is not only a liar but also a total slag, Alicent lets Cole leave.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 18 Sep. 2022
• Four small metal pipes also were also in the path of the welding slag and other debris blown from the nozzle at high velocity with the gas.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• In less than an hour, the furnace can process liquid steel at 3,000 degrees, with slag, or impurities, filtered out.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 10 Dec. 2020
• As the carbon vapor cools on the chamber walls, much of it condenses into fullerenes, but rare fullertubes also form, sprinkled like gems in a mountain of slag.
  — James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• Industrial wastes like fly ash and blast furnace slag have replaced cement in concrete at times.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 13 July 2023
• There are several types of coal ash, including fly ash, which is fine and powdery, bottom ash which is heavy and coarse, and boiler slag, which is melted bottom ash.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
• Ore, coke, and limestone go into the blast furnace, creating glowing liquid iron, along with a by-product called slag and huge quantities of CO2.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
• And caustic leachates from mountains of steel slag waste have wiped out fish populations in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Sep. 2020
• Original pieces had roots in England’s slag glass companies.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2022
• The octagonal shade is set with 16 panels in two colors of slag glass behind overlay filigree designs.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2023
• One commonly used example is blast-furnace slag from steel mills, which is rich in calcium and hardens like standard cement when it’s mixed with water.
  — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
• The property is a former coke plant and slag dump that was restored in 2011 as a certified Ohio Job Ready site meant to attract manufacturing businesses.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• The mines, once the beating heart of the region, where giant mountains of metal waste known as slag still dot the landscape, now represent a looming environmental catastrophe.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2021
• Not using the steel slag made roads and highways that the company paved in Central and Southern Indiana deteriorate faster than expected, the office said.
  — Lydia Gerike, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2020
• Until recently, the industry was finding economies in recycling fly ash and slag — waste products from coal plants, which are now growing scarce, and steel plants, which are concentrated in China.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2021
• And the third company is Baiaoheng, which is developing a process of turning slag—a byproduct from the smelting industry—to make a cement-like material.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 June 2022
• Others have replaced cement in concrete partly with construction and industrial waste, mining slag, and fly ash.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
• In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks that saw, according to some estimates, as many as one million firearms melted into slag.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• Instead of cement, the company uses waste slag from steelmaking in its concrete mix, and uses carbon dioxide captured from industrial plants to cure the concrete.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
• The ongoing archaeology work for Metro C has also revealed the remains — copper slag and ingots, as well as the holes dug for small furnaces — of a sixth-century metallurgical workshop, the largest known in Rome from its time period.
  — Jennifer Hattam, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Various treatments are applied to batteries, which convert the materials into three components, an alloy, a slag fraction and clean air, released following a vigorous gas-cleaning process.
  — Lucy Sherriff, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024