Example sentences for: mines

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

  • King Solomon ruled during the Golden Age of Jerusalem and is remembered for his wisdom, for the construction of the First Temple, and for his copper mines in the south.

  • Land mines made it onto the world's agenda because Diana put them there, using only the cameras and good will at her disposal.

  • 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.

  • Some hurdles remain however, says the Times : the U.S. would like at least a limited exemption for anti-personnel mines used in conjunction with anti-tank mines, and also wants an escape clause allowing exemptions for countries who are the victims of aggression.

  • Silvery and immaculate, with hallucinatory depth and detail, the pictures of Western mines and Eastern skyscrapers, cotton fields and battleships, boomtown main streets and metropolitan train stations have a strangely deserted Sunday-morning feel, as if they represented the first day, or perhaps the last, of American modernity.


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