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Example sentences for: mines

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

The surroundings supported both derivations; the ores from the mines supplied red paint, and a type of onion, akin to garlic, grew there.
(He's well on his way: The Associated Press reported this week that two airplanes bought by his "Operation Blessing" to fly aid to impoverished Zairians were used instead to service Robertson's Zairian diamond mines.)
Until recently, Belgian politics were dominated by an aging Francophone aristocracy, whose wealth was secured by Wallonian mines.
Immigration increased to meet an ambitious public works program of canals to bypass the St. Lawrence rapids and cross the Niagara peninsula, as well as of new cities, mines, and roads.
Another metal, tin—for which the Phoenicians used to sail as far from Tyre and Sidon to the mines on the coast of Cornwall nearly three millennia ago—bears a Latin symbol short for another metallic substance: Sn, for stannum , a Roman-era amalgam of silver and lead.