Example sentences for: copper

How can you use “copper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Death Valley was an irresistible magnet for prospectors, who once scoured the hills and canyons for signs of copper, lead, gold, and silver.

  • Should it have been the United States, where much of the copper Sumitomo ended up owning is warehoused?

  • Indeed, copper futures have been the object of massive speculative selling by the likes of George Soros, precisely because informed players believed that Hamanaka was keeping the price at artificially high levels, and that it would eventually plunge.

  • Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.

  • Baiza `small copper coin of Oman,' for example, is the Arabic version of Hindi paisa . Datura `type of plant' and vanda `variety of orchid' reached English via New Latin; gavial `large crocodile,' from Hindi ghariyal ) via French; and mohar `silver coin of Nepal' via Nepalese.


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