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Example sentences for: quarry

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Thousands of laborers worked to pull the block to this site from the quarry 48 km (30 miles) away; ingeniously, the operation was scheduled for deepest winter so that the load could be slid along specially iced roads.
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.
Born in 1920 to the wife of a Polish soldier, the future pope was a precocious intellectual, actor, and poet who worked in a quarry and a chemical plant during World War II.
Our forebears used to hunt it with hawks, and they could easily distinguish hunter from 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.