Example sentences for: miner

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

  • The real Hickam Sr. didn't want his son to be a miner but a mining engineer ; he longed to see the boy follow in his footsteps but to go beyond them, too, and to use his science to make people safer.

  • Humorous nicknames such as Dai Bungalow for a man with little upstairs mentally, Dai Bolical, the miner who never washed, and Evans Above, the undertaker, are the most savoured examples.

  • You can have a coal miner’s meal at the colliery canteen.

  • On three sides of the square stand grand old buildings: the 18th-century Horváth House, once an inn, now a miner’s sanatorium; the Trade Union Sanatorium of 1802, and the Cardiac Hospital, which has treated heart patients from all over the world.

  • McDavid's further description of the origins of the New York Academy of Sciences [NYAS] conference are a curate's egg of fact: the facts remain as recorded (I trust) in the files of the NYAS, to wit: In the mid 1960s, as a member of the NYAS (and, as far as I know, the only person associated with the conference who was a member before, during, and after it), I approached the Executive Director of the NYAS, Eunice Thomas Miner, suggesting a conference on lexicography in English.


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