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Example sentences for: quarry

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

Another problem, noted by USAT in its front-page "cover story," is that new highway construction is apt to raise to "epidemic" proportions an already high accident rate among rock quarry workers.
I heard of several hundred people hiding in a cave that once formed an old marble quarry, being taunted from outside by men firing machine-pistol volleys into the air.
He commissioned the Parthenon, Erechtheíon, Temple of Athena Nike, and Propylaia, taking advantage of a new marble quarry on Mount Pentelikon — the marble became known as Pentelic.
Our forebears used to hunt it with hawks, and they could easily distinguish hunter from quarry.
When you come to the quarry, ford it.