Example sentences for: miners

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

  • Most of the elements discovered in the first exuberant wave of Enlightenment chemistry bear abbreviations close to their actual names: Ni for nickel, first identified in 1751 (an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel , copper-demon, so called because miners first noticed it as a stubborn adulterant of copper ore), Al for aluminum—spelled alumin i um in the British Commonwealth nations (named in 1825 from Latin alumen , astringent substance), Co for cobalt (isolated in 1735; the name is a variant of German Kobold , a kind of imp).

  • . Beautifully arranged exhibits of furniture, costumes, utensils, and weapons give a vivid picture of Alberta life, from the pioneers’ log-cabin homesteads to the modern artifacts of oil-drillers, railway-builders, and miners.

  • Referring to protests by defense industry workers, miners, teachers, doctors, and energy sector workers, the newspaper noted that demonstrators outside the Defense Ministry in Moscow Wednesday paid no attention to attempts by government ministers and trade union leaders to appease them but continued to shout slogans such as "Send Yeltsin's gang to trial."

  • This faux pas might be likened to the Queen of England's saying in an address before Welsh miners, “As we here in England well know ...”

  • After prolonged coaxing by McParland, Orchard confessed to Steunenberg's murder--and, with the clear impression that he could save his own neck by naming others, he went on to implicate three executives of the Denver-based Western Federation of Miners, one of whom, William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, had co-founded an even more notorious organization, the Industrial Workers of the World.


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