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coal

[ US /ˈkoʊɫ/ ]
[ UK /kˈə‍ʊl/ ]
VERB
  1. burn to charcoal
    Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything
  2. take in coal
    The big ship coaled
  3. supply with coal
NOUN
  1. fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
  2. a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

How To Use coal In A Sentence

  • Once the coals are covered in a fur of white ash, start by barbecuing a few vegetables.
  • Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • ‘If you've no wish to sell the charcoals,’ Rachel began, ‘I don't at all blame you.'
  • The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
  • We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
  • He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
  • First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
  • Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects of burning more coal.
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