Words similar to quarry

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.
He avoided easy quarry: possum
usually called homographs: quarry, row, well, quail, down, truck, cleave, let , list.
It was definitely known that a road-mender did sleep in a one-room cabin near the abandoned slate quarry.
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.