How to Use smelter in a Sentence

smelter

noun

• The nearby town of Redruth served as the beating heart of the copper business where smelters bid for copper ore.
  — Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024
• Most of the on-site waste was sealed in a landfill next to the smelter building along Lake George.
  — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
• In another, men make paving stones with slag from the lead smelters.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2016
• The firm owns coal and manganese mines as well as aluminum smelters in South Africa.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• The aluminum smelter was opened 10 years later to feed off the plant’s power.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• The number of aluminum smelters in the United States has fallen from 23 to five in that time.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• But the site under the Hoan Bridge has proven most popular with smelters.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
• Then, six years ago, a towering smelter rose next to his home.
  — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Zhu, a 44-year-old smelter at the city's state-run iron and steel works, is well outside the mainstream in China.
  — Dake Kang, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• Drawn by that pitch, aluminum smelters began flocking to the island in the 1990s.
  — Justin Worland/reykjavik, Time, 25 July 2017
• Caliche, sage, sulphur from the smelter, wood fires from Mexican shacks by the Rio Grande.
  — Longreads, 9 Jan. 2016
• The smelter featured more than a dozen potrooms, each a few hundred yards long.
  — Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• Trail, British Columbia, is home to one of the world’s largest lead and zinc smelters and refineries.
  — Becky Kramer, The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018
• The company then sells its output to smelters to be melted down and reused.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
• On the one hand, the drought had caused the earth to dry up and crack; on the other, the smelters had caused an eternal night, blocking the sun with smoke and pollution.
  — Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
• The conflict over the smelter re-design has shaken unions across Codelco.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Begley and her husband bought their home in 2001, when the zinc smelter was running.
  — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021
• Across the road in Rockdale, at the old Alcoa smelter site, stands a mine owned by Bitdeer of Singapore.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2022
• In 1973, a fire broke out at Bunker Hill and destroyed part of the baghouse—the main pollution-control system for the lead smelter.
  — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 12 June 2016
• The smelter stands next to the town of Hayden, which has a population of about 600 people, and near the smaller town of Winkelman.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 19 Mar. 2020
• The ingots that emerged from the smelter were more uniform, stronger, and less brittle–the best steel that Europe, and perhaps the world, had ever seen.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• What’s worse, only one of those smelters makes the high-grade stuff that the U.S. defense industry needs to make fighter jets.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
• Next it would be trucked out to a smelter, likely in another country.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• The city says that stabilized the aquifer, which began a robust recovery after the smelter shut down in the 1980s.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• The tariffs raise prices for aluminum, which helps smelters, the companies that make raw aluminum here.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2018
• For the next year and a half, the smelter continued to operate, and dust polluted with heavy metals rained down on the area.
  — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 12 June 2016
• My grandfather was born in New Mexico to a father who worked at a smelter.
  — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2011
• Work at the Codelco Ventanas copper smelter in Ventanas, Chile.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The property Google wants to develop used to be an aluminum smelter.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• But alongside the mill’s furnaces and smelters, technicians have developed a machine that could soon play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024