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How to use miner in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Miner means a person who works in a mine. Example: “The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.”

Examples of miner by meaning

nounA person who works in a mine.

  • The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.
  • Hui from Lin’an—especially those from the village of Huilong—were famously skilled miners and traveled long distances to work mines throughout the province.2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in...
  • Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021

nounSoftware or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

  • The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian

nounA person who mines cryptocurrency.

  • The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain.2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC...

More sentences with miner

  • His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.From the entry spring
  • The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.From the entry gleam
  • The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.From the entry plunder
  • Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge.From the entry grunge
  • It's your turn to give a pep talk to the dispirited miners.From the entry pep talk
  • The miners hurriedly prepared for winter as the termination dust settled on the slopes above them.From the entry termination dust
  • The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.From the entry shatter
  • It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.From the entry reunion
  • Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.From the entry claim
  • The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight.From the entry davy
  • The miners were recrowding into the camp after their breakfast.From the entry recrowd
  • Our omnicause encompassed apartheid, Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, the miners’ strike and that Thatcher-era hardy perennial, The Cuts.2024 May 17, Janice Turner, “Don’t scorn students for believing in a cause”, in The Times, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024. From the entry omnicause
  • Of the miners, 34 were lifted out of the mine safely.2020 November 4, “8 missing in NW China mine accident”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2020. From the entry Yintai
  • The assault on the planet’s biggest terrestrial carbon sink by land-grabbers, agribusiness, miners and loggers is accelerating.2019 November 18, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'”, in The Guardian. From the entry agribusiness
  • The miners of Talus push a runcible transfer gate, enmeshed in hardfields, into the giant planet's core.2015, Neal Asher, chapter 1, in Dark Intelligence: Transformation, Book One, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry runcible
  • He has spent the last twenty years among coal miners, that's why he's such a lewdster.'2013, Gavin Wood, Tales of the Jacobite Grenadiers. From the entry lewdster
  • Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery.2012, Riazuddin, Physics and Contemporary Needs - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry sloppery
  • Earlier in the year, a coal mine flood in Zuoyun county killed 56 miners.2007, The China Business Handbook 2007, 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401. From the entry Zuoyun
  • In other words, it is similar to black lung, a disease coal miners can have.2005, Dawn M. Hudson, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Walch Publishing, →ISBN, page 23, →ISBN. From the entry pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
  • Fifteen miners are currently trapped in a flooded coalmine in Shangli County in Jiangxi province.2005 July 8, “Fifteen Miners Trapped in Flooded Coal Mine”, in China Labour Bulletin, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016, News. From the entry Shangli
  • It said rescue efforts were finally called off this week and the missing miners declared dead.2001 July 18, “Report: Floods Kill 21 Coal Miners”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022. From the entry Baishan
  • It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.2000, Australian Journal of Mining, page 2. From the entry skimpy
  • McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker.1999, David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography. From the entry sinker
  • I worked as a coal miner in Shiwufen, in Taibei County.1987, Hill Gates, “Folk Religions, Old and New”, in Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan, Cornell University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Taibei
  • Rather they might be compared to prospectors, or miners who go out looking for treasures.1982 November 11, Norbert F[elix] Gaughan, “Ins and Outs: Who ‘owns’ the faith?”, in Southern Cross, volume 70, number 43, Roman Catholic…. From the entry assayor
  • Settle on those strong and powerful women behind the over-worked coal miners.1977 December 3, Jim Marko, “Rousing Musical Tells Story of Working Women”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 13. From the entry hang-tough
  • All three groups were paid less per shift than coal miners.1975, Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914. From the entry hewer
  • It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work.1970 June, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span. From the entry pants
  • With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.1970 June, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span. From the entry pants
  • A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places.1948 October 11, “For Stiffened Lungs”, in Time. From the entry dust-ridden
  • Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.1930, Carl Whiting Bishop, Charles Greeley Abbot, Aleš Hrdlička, Man from the farthest past. From the entry deerhorn
  • From the neighbouring colleries the miners had come in crowds—men, women, and children.a. 1923 (date written), Thomas Burt, Aaron Watson, “The Last Strike on the Old Pattern”, in Thomas Burt […]: An Autobiography […], London…. From the entry blazer
  • Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.2016, John Bartel Weston, A Cryptic Odyssey, →ISBN, page 372. From the entry nuggety
  • There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in the wayback.2014, Homer Hickam, Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry wayback
  • I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.2013, Janis Pegrum Smith, More than Gold, [United Kingdom]: T*P Books, Wilton End Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry blag

Meaning of miner

  1. noun A person who works in a mine.
  2. noun An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
  3. noun Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.

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Questions about miner in a sentence

How do you use miner in a sentence?
Miner is used as a noun. For example: “The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.”
What is a short sentence with miner?
“The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.”
What does miner mean?
Miner means a person who works in a mine.

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