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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:

Robert Pim Butchart made a fortune out of Portland cement at the turn of the century and found himself stuck with an exhausted limestone quarry.
It was definitely known that a road-mender did sleep in a one-room cabin near the abandoned slate quarry.
Our forebears used to hunt it with hawks, and they could easily distinguish hunter from quarry.
When you come to the quarry, ford it.
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.