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• What on earth possessed you to go walking by the quarry at midnight?From the entry possess
• Local lore held that the quarry had once been the site of black masses.From the entry black mass
• Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.From the entry trout
• After we leave the quarry, we intend to afforest the land and turn it into a nature reserve.From the entry afforest
• The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 40. From the entry cusp
• It pays to take care as there are hidden dips and hugely heavy wagons from the quarry.2014, Groundflying The Dales: Travelling in through and around The Yorkshire Dales National Park. From the entry speluncean
• Weir's quarry, Kevin Trudeau, complained about "ambush journalism" when the correspondent stopped him on a Zurich street.2013 June 10, David Bauder, “ABC's 'The Lookout' a new outlet for 'Nightline'”, in Businessweek, retrieved 20 Apr 2014. From the entry ambush journalism
• Sky getting red, the edge of the quarry dark and jagged against it.2005, David Almond, chapter 10, in Clay, London: Hodder Literature, page 44. From the entry darken
• All the objects left in or near the quarries are unfinished roughcasts.1986, Pierre Vérin, The History of Civilisation in North Madagascar, page 280. From the entry roughcast
• Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231. From the entry sannup
• The Cromford & High Peak was one of Britain's oldest railways, giving access to the stone quarries of the Peak District.2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Cromford & High Peak”, in RAIL, number 974, page 48. From the entry stationary engine
• When they finally hit the main nest it's ratmageddon as the terriers dive into the hole and onto their cornered quarry.2019 February 25, “Hunting rats with the dogs and men of the Tweed Valley Rat Pack”, in Scottish Field. From the entry ratmageddon
• W of Taipei and on railroad; coal mining; clay quarry; distilling; mfg. of pottery, bricks and tiles, rush mats.1952, “Yingko”, in Leon E. Seltzer, editor, The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University…. From the entry Jap.
• The dolerite in the railway cutting, a short distance east of this quarry, shows a white trap top under calmstone.1937, Thomas Robertson, David Haldane, The Economic Geology of the Central Coalfield. From the entry calmstone
• God’s my judge if I lose the quarry I’ll—I’ll—you and your leaman shan’t enjoy it anyhow—I know—I know ’tis.1911, Eden Phillpotts, The Beacon, John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 270. From the entry leaman
• The key point in the ongoing battle has become the White Mountain on the chalk quarry, after which the settlement of Bilohorivka was named.2024 April 15th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 14 Apr: Storming White Mountain: Insane RUSSIAN 3% SURVIVAL ATTACK | War in…. From the entry White Mountain
• Second, his quarry was a culvert compared to those he’d visited along the Mississippi, sites he was sure Senator McBride had seen.2010, Steve B. Yates, Morkan’s Quarry, Moon City Press. From the entry misconstruance
• The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and interest of his quarry.1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119. From the entry spicen
• The truant skipped his drill, but had an eye no man could turn aside or miscommand for where the quarry of his spirit lay.1904, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 609. From the entry miscommand
• It has its own jetty and breakwater to ensure the safe delivery of high-tech equipment, as well as a dedicated quarry, dam, water treatment center and power plant.2025 August 20, Peter Martin, Nduka Orjinmo, Paul Burkhardt, “Africa’s Richest Person Wants to Dominate Oil Refining, Too. Will Aliko…. From the entry closely held
• A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 54. From the entry bund
• About Skinny Dipping a group of teenagers including one of my sons went swimming at an old abandoned quarry that was popular for late night skinny dips.2019 March, Tom Bissonette, Moved by MeToo - Owning Up and Reaching Out, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN. From the entry skinny dip
• In Urif, extremists spray painted “Death to Arabs” on shipping containers belonging to a local resident and the local quarry was tagged with the words “Fight the enemy.”2018 May 10, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2025. From the entry extremist
• When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive.2015 July 25, Theodore Schleifer, “First on CNN: Billionaire brothers give Cruz super PAC $15 million”, in CNN. From the entry fracking
• He fills thatcloud with HE but his quarry emerges from another nearby with a gesture of derision which the gunners below may imagine, though cannot see.2014, Martin Bowman, Lost Wings of WWI: Downed Airmen on the Western Front 1914-1918, →ISBN. From the entry archie
• Believing the bones to belong to a cave bear, the quarry owner passed them on to a local schoolteacher, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, who moonlighted as a fossilist.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Madness Gene”, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry moonlight
• Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River: Stories, →ISBN. From the entry nightfire
• These so-called ‘pig dogs’ chase after the wild pigs, often through rough terrain, and bring them down so that the following hunter can shoot the quarry.2009, Jane Duckworth, Not Every Dog Has His Day: The Treatment of Dogs in Australia, page 162. From the entry pig dog
• The animals, wild-drunk on country wine, hooved the ground, lacking a quarry, which was soon provided for them—another pig, followed by a wild chase to kill it.1996, Shaukat Osman, translated by Osman Jamal, God’s Adversary and Other Stories, New Delhi: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry hoove
• Two of the prehistoric sites, a quarry and a special task area, are common in the region, but the other site, a geoglyph, is rare and unique.1989 May, “Affected Environment”, in Proposed 1988 Plan Amendments to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan of 1980: Environmental…. From the entry geoglyph
• Hunting with hawks was superior to using the bow-and-arrow because man no longer needed stealth and subterfuge in his approach to quarry but could send his emissary instead.1980, William Mansell, Gary Low, North American birds of prey, page 166. From the entry venatically
• Slate has been quarried on Easdale Island since the 16th century at least, and today the village of Easdale still has signs of its former industry.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 159. From the entry Ellanbeich
• The author details the benefits arising from arranging the quarry faces to be haded backwards at say 20-25° off vertical and to be of reasonable height, say 50-60ft.1967, Mining and Minerals Engineering. From the entry hade

Meaning of quarry

1. noun A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
2. verb To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
3. verb To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

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Questions about quarry in a sentence

How do you use quarry in a sentence?

Quarry is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.”

What is a short sentence with quarry?

“Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.”

What does quarry mean?

Quarry means a site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.