Example sentences for: ore

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

  • A WP front-pager puts Portland, Ore., in the center of "a national battle over the future of the Internet."

  • The mines needed salt to process the ore, and an enterprising man named Guadalupe Sánchez found the perfect location for this by the mouth of the Río Cuale.

  • Astoria, Ore.

  • ; Edinboro, Pa.; and Springfield, Ore., are not exactly Madalyn Murray O'Hair country.

  • 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).


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