Example sentences for: mine

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

  • It has been able to turn flights that are low on frills but high on goofiness (flight attendants singing, dumb contests, and all the rest) into a gold mine by keeping costs low and poaching the majors' business on particular routes.

  • "For your protection and mine, stop talking and let me finish my job," the officer replied.

  • His door was always shut, but I could hear him through the wall that separated his cubicle from mine typing without pause.

  • In an attempt to reverse this trend, a Southern friend of mine offers the alternate when the grits hit the pan , but this usage seems destined to remain a regionalism at best, the kind of Southernism collected by John H. Felts in Bumps, Grinds, and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures [XVI,3].

  • An old college friend of mine who celebrated his twentieth birthday—meaning twenty years of AA sobriety—a couple of years ago, tells me that when he was on the skids and riding the rails from drunk tank to drunk tank, the favorite terms for muscat were muscadoodle and Napa Valley smoke .


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